Origin

The Amethiya get their name from the town of Amethi

Amethi

Amethi is a city and a municipal board in Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district. Amethi district officially named after Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj, is a newest and 72nd district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in...

 in eastern 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...

. According to their traditions, they are a branch of the Gaur clan of Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

s. They were initially settled in Kalinjar

Kalinjar

Kalinjar is a fortress-city in the Bundelkhand region of central India. Kalinjar is located in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh state, near the temple-city and World Heritage Site of Khajuraho. The fortress is strategically located on an isolated rocky hill at the end the Vindhya Range, at an...

 in Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand anciently known as Chedi Kingdom is a geographic region of central India...

, from where under the leadership of Raipal Singh they emigrated to Awadh

Awadh

Awadh , also known in various British historical texts as Oudh or Oude derived from Ayodhya, is a region in the centre of the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which was before independence known as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh...

, around the twelfth century. The Amethiya were sent to suppress an uprising by the Bisen

Bisen

Bisen/Vishen are the Suryavanshi Rajput clan found in North India, mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh.They trace their descent from Raja Prithvi Mull of Majhaul, and get their name from the Sanskrit words visva meaning "entire" and sena means an "army".In other words it connotes those who have...

 Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

s. Raipal Singh was wounded in battle, and as reward was given the title the Rajah of Amethi by the Delhi Sultan

Delhi Sultanate

The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi based kingdoms or sultanates, of Turkic origin in medieval India. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty...

. Towards the end of the 12th Century, three Amethiya brothers named Dingur Sah, Ram Singh and Lohang led their clan from Amethi

Amethi

Amethi is a city and a municipal board in Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district. Amethi district officially named after Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj, is a newest and 72nd district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in...

 to Jagdishpur

Jagdishpur

Jagdishpur is a city and a municipality in Sultanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The popular language spoken here is Awadhi. Jagdishpur is situated at about 62 km from the city of Sultanpur on the national highway No.56 and 90 km from Lucknow towards east...

, and drove out the local Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

s.

The Amethiya are now found mainly in the districts of Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur District

Gorakhpur district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Gorakhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.-History:The district was ceded by the Nawab of Awadh to the British East India Company in 1801. With this cession, Gorakhpur was raised to the status of a district. The...

, Raibareli, Deoria

Deoria District

Deoria district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Deoria town is the district headquarters. Deoria district is a part of Gorakhpur division.-Ancient:...

 and Barabanki

Barabanki District

The Barabanki district is one of four districts of Faizabad division, lies at the very heart of Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and forms as it were a centre from which no less than seven other districts radiate...

 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...

. In Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh there are many villages like Karauta, Banakta Amethiya were this clan primarily exists.

See also

The Amethiya get their name from the town of Amethi in eastern Uttar Pradesh. According to their traditions, they are a branch of the Gaur clan of Rajputs. They were initially settled in Kalinjar in Bundelkhand, from where under the leadership of Raipal Singh they emigrated to Awadh, around the twelfth century. The Amethiya were sent to suppress an uprising by the Bisen Rajputs. Raipal Singh was wounded in battle, and as reward was given the title the Rajah of Amethi by the Delhi Sultan. Towards the end of the 12th Century, three Amethiya brothers named Dingur Sah, Ram Singh and Lohang led their clan from Amethi to Jagdishpur, and drove out the local Muslims.[1]

The Amethiya are now found mainly in the districts of Gorakhpur, Raibareli, Deoria and Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh. In Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh there are many villages like Karauta, Banakta Amethiya ,khemadei , rautapr were this clan primarily exists.- manish singh amethiya 9557034840 khemadei