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[2] [1] Sivaji Koyal has explained the Rajputisation of a tribal chief by dividing it in 7 successional steps. Rajputisation used to begin with an invitation by a "budding tribal Raja " to the Brahmins in order to seek their assistance in the establishment of a court for him, for which the Brahmins would receive "land and gifts".
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.
In Pakistan the census is done on a linguistic basis, so it's harder to come across the population of Rajputs, who are mostly Muslim, at a national level, but at a local level the Punjab government has provided the following numbers: Rajputs constitute 32% of the Kasur District, [186] which as per the 2023 census would give a population of ...
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.
Described variously as the Rajput war, Rathore war of independence and Rathore rebellion, [1] the conflict between Rajputs of Marwar and the Mughals started after the death of Jaswant Singh of Marwar, due to Aurangzeb's attempt to interfere in the succession of Marwar.
Muslim Rajputs or Musalman Rajpoots are the descendants of Rajputs in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent who generally are followers of Islam. [1] They converted from Hinduism to Islam from the medieval period onwards, creating various dynasties and states while retaining Hindu surnames such as Chauhan.
Rajput is a group of kin bodies, castes and local groups. Such groups share ideology and social status of northern Indian descent. Rajput may also refer to: . List of Rajputs, a list of notable members of the Rajput community
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'.