Chamayan

Chamayan is also referred to as Chamayin, Chamain or Chaim is a clan of the Gurjar ethnic group found in India and Pakistan. They adhere to many religions, including the Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam.

Origin
They are descendants and an offshoot of the Chandravanshi Taur/Tanwar Gujjars.

Ethnography
Chamayan Gujjars are found in almost all provinces of Pakistan, Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad. Although in India they were found in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Dehli. Some Chamayan Gujjar also found in different provinces of Afghanistan including the Kabul, Kandahar, Nuristani and Nangarhar.

Important notes

 * 1) William Crooke (1890) An Ethnographical Hand-book for the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh North-Western provinces and Oudh government Press. p.90
 * 2) Duncan Forbes (1866) A Dictionary, Hindustani & English: Accompanied by a Reversed Dictionary, English and Hindustani W.H. Allen & Company. p.327
 * 3) Edward Balfour (1885) The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial Industrial, and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures · Volume 1 Bernard Quaritch. p.646
 * 4) A. H. Bingley, Krishna Prakash Bahadur (1978) History, Caste & Culture of Jāts and Gūjars Ess Ess Publications. p.40