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Definition of Rajput
1. Noun. A member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India.
Definition of Rajput
1. Noun. A member of the Kshatriya Hindu caste ¹
2. Noun. An inhabitant of Rajasthan ¹
3. Noun. Any of an ethnic group in Pakistan and Northern India who converted to Sikhism or Islam as a result of the Sikh Wars ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rajput
Literary usage of Rajput
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indika: The Country and the People of India and Ceylon by John Fletcher Hurst (1891)
"The rajput people resisted the Moguls with terrible earnestness, ... Jaipur, the
modern rajput capital, could only be enjoyed by giving it a full day. ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1881)
"rajput auxiliaries rendered Akbar very formidable. Night was coming on; the battle
was to be fought at early morning. Aurangzeb heard from his spies that ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Physically, the rajput and brahman ofthat region nru not different. The modern
rajput is quite as strict as a hindú, and more prejudiced than many brahmans, ..."
4. An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan by Henry Walter Bellew (1891)
"Pak for Patak, rajput. Pali is mercantile rajput, ... mercantile rajput. Misri for
Misar Brahman. ... rajput. Sarwar is a rajput tribe. ..."
5. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"All over Northern India the rajput is traditionally the ruling and righting caste,
that from which both the kings and warriors were in old times taken. ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"Distribu- The tale serves to record the dissensions among the rajput ...
These rajput States formed the natural breakwaters against invaders from the ..."
7. A short manual of the history of India: With an Account of India as it Is by Roper Lethbridge (1881)
"The period was marked by the rise and progress of a large number of rajput
principalities, not only in that part of India which is now called rajputana, ..."
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