How To Use Rajput In A Sentence
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He will play a Rajput prince who avenges his father's murder in what is being billed as ‘a chilling thriller’.
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Rajput men wear the dhoti (loincloth consisting of a long piece of white cotton wrapped around the waist and then drawn between the legs and tucked into the waist), often with a cotton tunic.
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Baba Ram Dev, a popular folk deity of Rajput lineage in west Rajasthan is worshiped by both Hindus and Muslims who call him a pir, with a pundit and maulavi in attendance at the shrine in Ramdevra in Jodhpur.
The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture,
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Rajputana the valleys of streams might be expected to be the only favourable tracts for settlement, and the name perhaps therefore is a record of the process by which the colonies of Minas in these isolated patches of culturable land developed into exogamous clans marrying with each other.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India: Including the Cabul disasters, captivities in Afghanistan and the Punjaub, and a narrative of the mutinies in Rajputana by Sir George Lawrence
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He was a Rangar, -- which is to say a Rajput who, or whose ancestors had turned Muhammadan.
In The Time Of Light
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Many Rajput kings retained a status as rulers of princely states under the British.
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And she saw him herself that morning, in her favorite disguise of a rangar zemindari, which is a Rajput landowner turned Muhammadan.
Guns of the Gods
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All the rest of that game until the eighth, chukker after chukker, the Rajputs managed to reverse the usual procedure, obliging the English team to wear itself out in terrific efforts to break away, tiring men and ponies in a tight scramble in which neither side could score.
Guns of the Gods
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Formal education used to be of little significance among ruling and landowning Rajput clans.
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Brahmans serving in the army sometimes take the title Singh, which is more properly assumed by Râjpûts or Sikhs.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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‘It is well’, the Saddhu whispered, jammed in the calling, shouting, bewildered press — a Persian greyhound between his feet and a cageful of yelling hawks under charge of a Rajput falconer in the small of his back.
Kim
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The Sikh, Muhammadan and Hindu Jats, the Kashmírís and the Rájputs all belong to the tall, fair, leptorrhine
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste.
CORONATION DAY
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On the 2d of February, while passing through a narrow lane inclosed on both sides with hedges, we were assaulted by above 300 rajputs, where we could not hurt them, as they did our caffila or caravan by their arrows and shot.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The most extraordinary thing about the Balti Houses and Rajput Tandooris up and down the country is that each and every one of them has the same menu.
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Singh Rajput , a moustached Indian policeman, smiles outside the police control room in Bhopal January 13,2004.
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Perhaps the most magnificent building in Jaisalmer is the Patwon-ki haveli, whose entire facade is covered with intricate latticework, Rajput balconies and gabled windows.
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Formerly the seat of a Rajput dynasty, it was later captured by the Sikhs. Population, 206, 135.
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Subsequently, Akbar assimilated cultural patterns from earlier rulers, including sultanate kings and Rajput rulers.
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The form of the minarets, indeed, brings to mind the battlements of Rajput fort rather than the graceful tapering classical Islamic minaret.
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Most were Sikhs, Rajputs or Gurkhas, people whom the British classed as ‘martial races’ and they were much admired for their bearing, courage and steadfastness.
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Other Rajput clans trace their ancestry to the Sun or Moon.
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In addition, nearly every Rajput clan has its own patron god to whom it turns for protection.
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The name would seem to show that they were Bhatis (called Bhatti in the Punjab); but be that as it may, their Rajput origin seems to be unquestioned.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)