What is Nirban?
'''Nirban''', also spelt Narban or Nirwan, is a large [[gotra]] of [[Hinduism|Hindus]] of [[Haryana]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QmrSwFYe60C&q=gots+of+the+Jadubanshis&pg=PA6|title=Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province|last1=Ibbetson|first1=Sir Denzil|last2=Maclagan|date=1990|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0505-3|language=en}}</ref> There are [[village]]s of Nirban in [[Pataudi (princely state)|Pataudi]]. They an also be found in the Badli and Haidurpur villages of [[Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yadava|first=J. S.|date=1971|title=History and Development of a Village Settlement in North India|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/481533|journal=Ethnohistory|volume=18|issue=3|pages=239–244|doi=10.2307/481533|jstor=481533 |issn=0014-1801}}</ref> Nirban is also a clan of [[Rajput]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQi2AAAAIAAJ&q=nirban+clan|title=Proceedings of the ... Session|last=Commission|first=Indian Historical Records|date=1981|publisher=The Commission|language=en}}</ref> According to Sir Henry Miers Elliot, the Nirban gotra is also found in the [[Nanda|Ahirs]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mX4TAAAAYAAJ&dq=nirban+clan&pg=PA4|title=Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India: Being an Amplified Edition of the Original Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms|last1=Elliot|first1=Henry M.|last2=Elliot|first2=Sir Henry Miers|date=1869|publisher=Trübner & Company|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYnlAAAAMAAJ&q=nirban|title=Hindu Tribes and Castes|last=Sherring|first=Matthew Atmore|date=1872|publisher=Thacker, Spink & Company|language=en}}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[Majhraut (Ahir)]] == References == {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} [[Category:Yadav]]