Burdak
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Burdak (बुरडक) is a surname found in the countries of Eurasia, Australia and United States. In India, Burdak is a clan of the Jat people and Bishnois.
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[edit] History
Burdak is a surname of the Jat community in India, found primarily in northwest Rajasthan, which indicates membership in the Burdak Gotra. Jats of the Burdak Gotra trace their lineage from the Rajput family Chauhan which in turn descends from the Agni kula ("Fire Born") lineage. According to Dr Mahendra Singh Arya and others, [1] they are considered to be the descendants of Maharaja Wardak (वरडक). The records of Kushan ruler Huvishka (140-183 CE) have been unearthed at Wardak, to the west of Kabul.[2]
The name "Burdak" derives from a legend of Parashurama. Upon this deity's apparent destruction of the entire Kshatriya varna, a single boy-child survived as a result of a Jat woman's hiding the boy by burying him, covering him in sand. The boy's name in Hindi, "Burdak", derives from a combination of the words "Bura" and "Dhaka", meaning "buried" and "covered", respectively. All Burdaks are said to descend from this single male.
With the defeat of Prithiviraj Chauhan in the Second Battle of Tarain (1192) and establishment of Muslim rule in North India in the form of the Delhi Sultanate, Jats moved to the countryside and started tilling the land. As part of this Jat exodus, Burdaks moved out from Delhi with 50 horses and founded the village of Sarnau near Jeenmata in Sikar Rajasthan. All modern-day Burdaks in Rajasthan are descendants of a single child born of a Kharra Gotra woman, the sole survivor of the massacre of Burdaks by members of Dhakas Gotra in Sarnau.
[edit] Geographical distribution
Countries where the Burdak surname is found include Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Ellis Island, England, Galician, Germany, Hungary, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Yugoslavia
[edit] Variants
Variants of the Burdak surname include
Buldak, Burdács, Burdak, Burdák, Burdakas, Burdakevich, Burdakin, Burdakoff, Burdakov, Burdakova, Burdán, Burdáts, Burdavkiné, Burdick, Burdik, Burdock, Burjak, Burrak, Burraq, Buryat, Spin Buldak, Buldick, Buldock, Buldok, Bardak, Vardak, Wardak
[edit] Notable persons from this clan
- Arvind Kumar Burdak - Recipient of Shaurya Chakra award.
[edit] Reference
- ^ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudi, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar, Adhunik Jat Itihasa, Agra 1998
- ^ RC Majumdar: An Advanced History of India, Page 116, ISBN 0333 90298 X
