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She was the daughter of a Rajput of the suryavansa family. [69] Maldeo, the Rajput ruler of Rathore dynasty of Marwar, gave his two daughters in marriage to the Muslim rulers of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat. Queen Kankavati Rathore was married to Mahmud Shah III, and Maldeo's second daughter was married to Islam Shah of Gujarat. [70]
Genealogies of the Rajput clans were fabricated by pastoral nomadic tribes when they became sedentary. In a process called Rajputization, after acquiring political power, they employed bards to fabricate these lineages which also disassociated them from their original ancestry of cattle-herding or cattle-rustling communities and acquired the name 'Rajput'.
Such marriage of a tribal family with an acknowledged but possibly poor Rajput family would ultimately enable the non-Rajput family to become Rajput. This marriage pattern also supports the fact that Rajput was an "open caste category" available to those who served in the state army and could translate this service into grants and power at the ...
The Rajput kingdoms were disparate: loyalty to a clan was more important than allegiance to the wider Rajput social grouping, meaning that one clan would fight another. This and the internecine jostling for position that took place when a clan leader (raja) died meant that Rajput politics were fluid and prevented the formation of a coherent ...
This is a list of Rajput clans of Uttar Pradesh. A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolic, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a ...
Jadeja (Gujarati, Sindhi: Jāḍejā, [1] or Jāṛejā [2]) is a Samma Rajput clan that inhabits the Indian state of Gujarat and the Tharparkar district of Sindh, Pakistan. [3] [4] They originated from Sammas of Sindh, [5] [6] a pastoral group, and laid a claim on the Rajput identity [7] after marriages with Sodha Rajput women [8] [9] by adopting a process called Rajputisation.
Bhim Chand was the Rajput King of Bilaspur state (reigned 1665 – 1692) [46] Rani Karnavati of Garhwal, the Parmar Rajput Queen of Garhwal, credited for defending the kingdom against the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. [47] Durgadas Rathore, was a minister of Marwar who was successful in preserving Marwar against Mughal rule [48]
The Rajput clan name "Rathore" was adopted as a surname by the Teli community in 1931, who started calling themselves Vaishyas Rathore for caste upliftment. [23] During the same period of British Raj , the Banjaras began styling themselves as Chauhan and Rathor Rajputs.