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Rajput

noun
1.
A member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India.  Synonym: Rajpoot.





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... language. All of them recognize a common code or unwritten law called Pukhtunwali, which appears to be similar in general character to the old Hebraic law, though modified by Mahommedan ordinances, and strangely similar in certain particulars to Rajput custom. Besides their division into clans and tribes, the whole Afghan people may be divided into dwellers in tents and dwellers in houses; and this division is apparently not coincident with tribal divisions, for of several of the great clans at least a part is nomad ...
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Words linked to "Rajput" :   Hindu, Hindoo, Hindustani


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