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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 ...
Following is the list of those ruling Rajput dynasties of the Indian Subcontinent: Kachhwahas of Jaipur, Alwar, Lawa, [17] Kohra [18] and Maihar [19] Sisodias of Mewar [20] Rathores of Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kishangarh, Jhabua, Ratlam, Alirajpur, Idar and Seraikela [21] Imperial Pratiharas of Kannauj [22] Chauhans of Sambhar, Nadol, Ranthambore and ...
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 ...
Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.
George Thomas (Military Memories) was the first in 1800, to term this region the Rajputana Agency. [5] The historian John Keay in his book, India: A History, stated that the Rajputana name was coined by the British, but that the word achieved a retrospective authenticity: in an 1829 translation of Ferishta's history of early Islamic India, John Briggs discarded the phrase "Indian princes", as ...
The history of Rajasthan can be classified into three parts owing to the different epochs- Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Rajput clans emerged and held their sway over different parts of Rajasthan from about 700 CE. Rajputana “land of the Rajputs” was Rajasthan's old name under the British Raj. When India became independent, 23 princely ...
They ruled a majority of kingdoms of the region [1] [2] and even dominate in Himachal Pradesh politics. The kingdoms of the Hill States of India were mostly in the present day state of Himachal Pradesh, and mostly had Rajput rulers. [1] [3] All of the Chief Ministers who served Himachal Pradesh except for Shanta Kumar belong to the Rajput caste ...
Rao Bika, founder and king of Bikaner, he was a son of Rao Jodha, he left Marwar to create his own kingdom [18] Maharaja Kam Dev Misir, a Sikarwar Rajput and a ruler of the Pahargarh Estate. [19] Rao Shekha, King of Amarsar [20] Rai Bular Bhatti, a Muslim Rajput who donated 18,750 acres of land to Guru Nanak [21]