Kharwars are found in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

, Bihar

Bihar

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, Jharkhand

Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

, West Bengal

West Bengal

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, Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, Gujarat, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, Delhi

Delhi

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, Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a state in Central India, formed when the 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking South-Eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained separate statehood on 1 November 2000....

,Madhyapradesh.The community claim to have originally suryavanshi kshatriya(kharagvanshi is a part of suryavanshi) and chero rule also trace their descent from the suryavanshi kshatriya(kharagvanshi) .They wear the janeo or caste thread but presently they not use janeo.surname used by this community are singh, mandal (especially in katihar

Katihar District

Katihar district is one of the thirty-seven districts of Bihar state, India, and Katihar town is the administrative headquarters of this district...

 and bhagalpur distt

Bhagalpur District

Bhagalpur district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India, and Bhagalpur town is the administrative headquarters of this district.-Geography:...

 of bihar), kharwar,thakur,. Due to government policy it has been put in various category.

Location

UP

Gujurat

Rajasthan

Bihar

West bengal

Jharkhand

Orissa

Maharashtra

Delhi

Chhattisgarh

Madhya pradesh

Registration no. and Head office

KHARAGVANSHI(KHARWAR)KSHATRIYA

DESCRIPTION ::Estd. 1931.. REGISTRATION No. – S/7768/3411

AKHIL BHARATVARSHIYA KHARAGVANSHI (KHARWAR) KSHATRIYA MAHASABHA

ALL INDIA KHARAGBANSHI (KHARWAR) KSHATRIYA MAHASABHA

REGISTERED AND HEADOFFICE: -15A CLIVE ROW (2ND FLOOR) KOLKATA-700001

RASTRIYA ADHAYAKSH – SHRI SITA RAM SINGH (KOLKATA) MOBILE:09339145771
RASTRIYA MAHASACHIV – SHRI ARUN KUMAR SINGH (KOLKATA) MOBILE:09831237926

History

The economic activities of the kharwar have been agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 and wage earning.Perviously they were landlords and zamindars.But due to their extravagant nature ,they have been turned into poor.Now agriculture is the main source of their stay .kharwar have been the descendants of landlords and zamindars.They consider themselves as attarah hazari and claim descent from the suryavanshi kshatriya.History says that Rajas of ramgarh

Ramgarh

Ramgarh Raj was a major Zamindari in the era of the British Raj.The areas that would later comprise the Ramgarh Raj had initially belonged to the Raja of Chhota Nagpur. Around the year AD 1368, the area witnessed unrest for reasons not now known. The Raja deputed two brothers by name Baghdeo and...

 and jashpur are members of this family.
They marry in own clan(caste).But in some places of bihar they marry with khangars

Khangars

The Khangar community are an ancient Kshatriya clan of Indian origin. They are referred to by many other names, such as Khangaar, Khungar, Khengar, Khagar, Khangdhar and Rai Khangar.They ruled large areas of Bundelkhand after the fall Chandels in 1182 AD...

kshatriya(obc in bihar) as well as in his own clan(caste). In rajasthan they marry with kshatriya (rajput) like parmar , tomar etc.