M. Sarmad
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I think you are confusing Gujrat/punjab to be named after Gurjara. Gujrat city in north punjab is named after nomadic gujjars who settled in it in Mughal era, so relatively recently.
Gurjara and Gujjars are the same people.
As per V.A Smith, Gujjars migrated from the west by the Quetta and Kandahar route to the Rajputana and from Rajputana, they migrated to Punjab.
Muin ud-Din Munshi and Vinayak Vaidya believe primary Gujjar settlements were around Mount Abu, in Rajasthan. They argue that from Mount Abu they migrated to Punjab via northerly direction. “This more or less close association of the dialects of the Gujars of the Sub-Montane districts of Punjab, hill country to the northwest of Punjab, and the lower hills from Chamba to western Nepal with eastern Rajasthan and especially Mewati dialect, clearly indicates the migration of Gujars from Rajasthan, where they acquired this language, to Yamuna valley through Delhi and from there westward into northwest hill country and further northward into the Himalaya.”
Akbar then did get (few of) them settle down in the pargana Gujrat, sarkar Chej Doab, suba Lahore, named so after the Gujjars, in the year 1588
..... Nomadic Gujjars are hand full of people and minuscule compared to the Gurjar caste spread to such a great extent. Nomad Gurjars are a small part of Gurjars. Its a pity that Gurjars are only remembered as Nomads since the contemporary history and geography books give example of Nomad people and quote minuscule Gujjar nomads.
Thanks to the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 which declared Gujjars criminal by birth for their opposition of the Brits in 1857.
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