What is Jadeja?
{{notability|date=March 2025}} The '''Jadeja''' (also spelled '''Jarejo''') ([[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]: {{Lang|gu|Jāḍejā}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shah|first1=A. M.|last2=Shroff|first2=R. G.|date=1958|title=The Vahīvancā Bāroṭs of Gujarat: A Caste of Genealogists and Mythographers|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/538561|journal=The Journal of American Folklore|volume=71|issue=281|pages=258|doi=10.2307/538561|jstor=538561|via=JSTOR}}</ref>) is a [[Rajput]] clan.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mario |last=Rodrigues |title=Batting for the Empire: A Political Biography of Ranjitsinhji |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0puAAAAMAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Penguin Books, 2003 |isbn=9780143029519 |page=51}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=B. N. |last=Goswamy |title=A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FSUNAQAAIAAJ |year=1983 |publisher=Oxford University Press, 1983 |isbn=9780195613117 |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=M. H. |last=Syed |title=History Of The Delhi Sultanate (Set Of 2 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zpIswEACAAJ |year=2004 |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited, 2004 |isbn=9788126118304 |page=240}}</ref> They claim descent from [[Krishna|Lord Krishna]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UW1AAAAAIAAJ&q=Krishna+Abhiras+S%C4%81ttvatas|title=The Dynamics of Faith: Comparative Religion|last=Mitra|first=Khagendranath|date=1952|publisher=University of Calcutta|language=en|quote=Krishna belongs to a Jadav clan of Rajputs.}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Rajputs]] [[Category:Clans]] {{asia-stub}}