"The Sainis trace their origin to a Rajput clan who came from their original home near Muttra [sic] on the Jumna, south of Delhi, in defence of Hindus against the first Muhammadan invasions."
- The land of the five rivers; an economic history of the Punjab from the earliest times to the year of grace 1890, pp 100, Hugh Kennedy Trevaskis, [London] Oxford University press, 1928
Saini Research Net
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Saini Online is an online journal and collaborative research project of serious academic scholars interested in exploring the textual sources and framing academic hypotheses about the history of once famed Surasena branch of Yadu Rajputs, whence Sainis of Punjab and neighboring region claim descent. This is not a community based social networking website and does not seek to promote or encourage caste or community based affiliations. The main objective of this website is to reconstruct a narrative of the history of Saini community of Punjab by employing academic grade textual sources. Where those textual sources appear ambiguous, disjointed or lost hypotheses will be proposed in a theoretical framework grounded within the accepted methodological approaches of historiography.
