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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The map of the Rajputana Agency in 1909 from the Imperial Gazetteer. Legend: princely states are in yellow. Rajasthan is a state in northern India. The History of Rajasthan is about 5000 years old. The history of Rajasthan can be classified into three parts owing to the different epochs- Ancient, Medieval and Modern.
The kingdom was founded when Demetrius I of Bactria invaded the Hindu Kush early in the 2nd century BCE. The Greeks in India were eventually divided from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom centered in Bactria (now the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan). The expression "Indo-Greek Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities.
Mewar, also spelled as Mewad is a region in the south-central part of Rajasthan state of India. It includes the present-day districts of Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Pirawa Tehsil of Jhalawar District of Rajasthan, Neemuch and Mandsaur of Madhya Pradesh and some parts of Gujarat.
The Kingdom of Mewar was an independent Hindu kingdom that existed in the Rajputana region of the Indian subcontinent and later became a dominant state in medieval India. [8] The kingdom was initially founded and ruled by the Guhila dynasty followed by the Sisodiya Dynasty.
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]