Hunjan

For the village in Iran, see Hunjan, Iran.

Hunjan is a surname found among Ramgarhias of India.^[1]

They are part of the Tarkhan (Punjab) clan, which was established from the Central Asian title, Tarkhan.

Muslim migrants, traders, merchants and nomadic tribes, coming from Hunjan, Iran, to the Punjab region converted to Sikhism - during its immense growth under Guru Gobind Singh's reign. This led to the migrants adopting a new belief; however, they retained their surnames - coming from the migrants' ancestral village in Iran. Modern day descendants can trace their origin to Iranian and Indo-Aryan roots.

Notable people:

Amrita Hunjan, model and singer
Surinder Shinda, singer from Hunjan gotra (clan)^[2]

References

↑ K. S. Singh (1996). Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. Anthropological Survey of India. p. 1173. ISBN 978-0-19-563357-3.
↑ Nicola Mooney (2011). Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs. University of Toronto Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-8020-9257-1.

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