History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c14.45

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∗ The Sumras too appear to be converted Rajputs though like many people converted to Islam in the Panjab they also trace their origin to the Arabs. Sir D. Ibbetson in his Punjab castes says of the Sumras in the Panjab that they were Rajputs originally in 750 A. D. They expelled the first Rajput invaders from Multan and Sind and founded a dynasty." Tod describes them as one of the two great clans Umra and Sumra of the Sodha tribe of Punwar Rajputs the first giving their name to Umrakot and both giving the name Umra-Sumra to the Bakkhar country. The Sodhi are probably the Sogdi of Alexander's historians.