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{{Infobox gotra
| name = Sinsinwar
| type = Jat Clan
| location = [[Rajasthan]], [[Haryana]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| varna = [[Kshatriya]]
| descended_label = Vansh
| descended =Chandravansha<ref name=autogenerated5>{{Cite book|title=The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations |last=Panwar |first=Hukum Singh |year=1993 |publisher=Manthan Publications, Rohtak |pages=93–112 |ISBN=81-85235-22-8}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated4>{{Cite book|title=Imperial gazetteer of India: provincial series, Volume 23 |year=1908 |publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing (Original from the University of California) |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=JDW2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA322}}</ref>
| branches = Sinsinwar, Sansanwal, Sanwal, Shanwal
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| language = [[Hindi language|Hindi]] and [[Braj language|Braj]] 
}}
'''Sinsinwar''' is a [[gotra]] of [[Jat people|Jats]] found in [[Rajasthan]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]], India. The [[Bharatpur, India|Bharatpur]] rulers of the Sinsinwar gotra originate from Sini/Shini in the ancestry of [[Krishna]];<ref>{{Cite book|title=A study of the Bhagavata Purana; or, Esoteric Hinduism |author=Purnendu Narayana Sinha |year=1901 |publisher=Freeman (in Benares) |page=243 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/astudyofthebhaga00sinhuoft#page/n243/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated6>{{Cite book|title=The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations |last=Panwar |first=Hukum Singh |year=1993 |publisher=Manthan Publications, Rohtak |ISBN=81-85235-22-8}}</ref> which itself is derived from Krishna's own gotra, [[Vrishni]].<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite book|title=A study of the Bhagavata Purana; or, Esoteric Hinduism |chapter=THE LUNAR DYNASTY (SKANDHA 9) |author=Purnendu Narayana Sinha |year=1901 |publisher=Freeman (in Benares) |page=223 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/astudyofthebhaga00sinhuoft#page/n223/mode/2up}}</ref>  They are Chandravanshi [[kshatriya]]s.<ref name=autogenerated5 /><ref name=autogenerated4 /> Before the formation of Bharatpur state, the capital of Sinsinwars is said to be at [[Sinsini]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

== History ==
The rulers of Bharatpur claim originally to have been [[Yadavs]],<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kWptYbzpXE8C&pg=PA33&dq=yadav+rajputs&hl=en&ei=vGuVTcnLDYbUrQe8rP2EDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=yadav%20rajputs&f=false Political and administrative ... - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> the descendants of Krishna. Some historians  claims that Sinsinwar gotra originated from a village named Sinsina,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Political and administrative integration of princely states |last=Sadasivan |first=S. N. |year=2005 |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=kWptYbzpXE8C&pg=PA33&dq=sinsinwar+jats+emerging+from+the+village+sinsina&hl=en&ei=vGuVTcnLDYbUrQe8rP2EDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCQ#v=snippet&q=sinsinwar%20jats%20emerging%20from%20the%20village%20sinsina&f=false}}</ref> named after Sinsina; who is considered to be the patron saint of all Sinsinwars, and also has a temple in his name "Sinsina Baba ka Mandir" in [[Bharatpur district|Bharatpur]]. It has also been claimed that a Chandravanshi Yadav, is said to have migrated from [[Bayana]] to the [[Deeg]] jungles and founded a village named Sinsini, named after Sinsina, the tutelary deity.<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?ei=vGuVTcnLDYbUrQe8rP2EDA&ct=result&id=2EuKAAAAMAAJ&dq=yadav+rajputs&q=yadav+ Integration of the Indian states - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Yadav]]s
* [[Rajput]]s
* [[Yaduvanshi Ahirs]]
* [[History of Bharatpur]]

==References==
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{{Gotras of Jats}}

[[Category:Jat clans of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Jat clans of Uttar Pradesh]]