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In general, the process of Rajputisation was done not just by a tribal chief but by "castes all over north India ranging from peasants and lower-caste Sudras", as well as warriors and even the "local raja who had recently converted to Islam".
Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, [5] is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the northern part of the Indian subcontinent.
Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Ajmer Rana Sanga, king of Mewar Maharana Pratap of Mewar, by Raja Ravi Varma Durgadas Rathore, by Har Bilas Sarda. List of notable Rajputs during the pre-British era, ordered chronologically by reign.
During the medieval and later feudal/colonial periods, many parts of the Indian subcontinent were ruled as sovereign or princely states by various dynasties of Rajputs.. The Rajputs rose to political prominence after the large empires of ancient India broke into smaller ones.
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'.
The Ranghad Rajputs migrated from Haryana settled in Pakistan refer their language as ranghadi.Although the same language is known as Haryanvi in India.. According to the book "A memoir of central India" (1832), The Ranghadi Bhasha prevails as far West as the Indus, East as far as the frontier of Bundelkhand, South to the Satpoora hills, and North to Jeypoor, Joudpoor, and Jesselmeer.
Rajputs of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालका राजपुत) or anciently Rajputras (Nepali: राजपुत्र) are Rajput Kshatriya community of Nepal.. There were various historical groups of Rajputs from ancient and medieval India that have immigrated to Kathmandu valley, Khas Malla Kingdom, Western hill regions and other Terai territories.
The Vaghela dynasty were an offshoot vassal clan connected to the Chaulukya dynasty, ruling Gujarat in the 13th century CE. Their capital was Dholka.They were the last Hindu dynasty to rule Gujarat before the Muslim conquest of the region.