RANA PUNJA

Rajput or Bhil?

The Bhils say he was born in Merpur, near modern Udaipur, in Rajasthan. Rajputs say Rana Punja, who fought alongside Maharana Pratap, is descended from the Bhojawat Solanki Rajputs. In the past few years, a statue war has erupted in southern Rajasthan, with the Bharatiya Tribal Party, the political front of the Bhil Parivar, insisting that any reference to the raja say Rana Punja Bhil