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Karni Sena (/ ˈ k ə ˈ r n i s eɪ n ɑː /; Karaṇī sēnā), known as Karni Sena (Unity of Rajput/Kshatriya), abbr.: KS), is an organisation based in Rajasthan, India. Founded by Lokendra Singh Kalvi, [1] Pratap Singh Kalvi, [2] Dr Raj Shekhawat [3] and others. It takes its name from Karni Mata, who is believed to be incarnation of Hinglaj ...
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]
Bharatpur reportedly lost its Rajput status when their ancestor Balchand was unable to have children with his Rajput wife and had sons with a Jat woman. [33] The British-era ethnographer Denzil Ibbetson wrote that the terms like “Rajput” or "Jat" in the Punjab region of what is now Pakistan, was used as a title rather than as a ...
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.
These Rajput son-in-laws were included in the gotra of the Malla rulers [32] and the son-in-law who lived with their Malla father-in-laws were given the surname Singh. [9] Thus, the Rajput families became courtiers at Nepal and created a new endogamous courtier (Bharadari=Bharo) class. [9]
When Mughal Emperor Akbar was marching towards Chittor to capture it, he invited Shakti Singh for meeting at Dhaulpur, he accepted the proposal and they met on 31 August 1567 but when Akbar explained his plan to capture Chittaurgarh and offered him throne of Mewar against his own family in a hope that people of Mewar will not resist akbar if Shakti Singh will be crowned.
Kinwar is a clan whose members belong to the Kshatriya (Rajput), [[]] and Bhumihar Brahmin caste. [1] the Kshatriya members principally reside in the states of Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh. [2] A particularly large population of Kinwar Bhumihars can be found in Ghazipur district. [3] [4]
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'.