Divided into 52 subclans or Gotras, the Sunars are strictly endogamous. They claim to be from the Kshatriya classs. In Gujrat and Rajasthan, the community is known as Soni.
An Indian goldsmith (1886)
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An Indian goldsmith is at work in this portrait likely taken in 1888. The man belongs to the Sunar cast of North India.
Divided into 52 subclans or Gotras, the Sunars are strictly endogamous. They claim to be from the Kshatriya classs. In Gujrat and Rajasthan, the community is known as Soni.
Divided into 52 subclans or Gotras, the Sunars are strictly endogamous. They claim to be from the Kshatriya classs. In Gujrat and Rajasthan, the community is known as Soni.