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- noun Plural form of
Rajpoot .
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Examples
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Now just at that very moment, it happened, that there were living in the desert two Rajpoots of the race of the Moon; and the name of the one was
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Rajpoots by origin, they can follow no trade; the Bunjara may _serve_ only as a soldier; in all other callings he must be free and independent.
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All Rajpoots are sons of Kings: and Aranyání herself a Rajpootni.
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Hiouen-Tsang in the seventh century, at which last period they appear to have been the prevailing sect in India, and to have increased in favor until in the twelfth century the Rajpoots, who had become converts to Jainism, were schismatized into Brahmanism and deprived the naked philosophers of their prestige.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Hence the old Sikh families, the ancient Rajpoots, although subdued into obedience, were ever distrustful of him and he was ever obnoxious to them; hence the seeds of discord which so rapidly sprung up on the decease of Runjeet Singh, and which concluded in this war so fatal to the Sikh.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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Hence the practice, among the Rajpoots and adjacent peoples, of destroying the female infants, to avoid it.
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There has been the same difficulty to encounter in every age of Mussulmaun history in Hindoostaun; and in the darker periods of civilization, the obstacles to settling their daughters to advantage induced the villagers and the uneducated to follow the example of the Rajpoots, viz., to destroy the greater proportion of females at their birth.
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Surely, reasoned the Rajpoots, we may destroy a daughter by abortion, starvation, suffocation, strangulation, or neglect, of whose marriage in the line of caste and dignity of family there is little prospect, if
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Observing on the pride of high caste, "which withers whatever it touches," Mr. Raikes informs us that the Brahmins and Rajpoots of the rich province of Benares will not touch the plough owing to pride of caste.
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These reports of Thug expeditions run along interminably in one monotonous tune: "Met a sepoy -- killed him; met 5 pundits -- killed them; met 4 Rajpoots and a woman -- killed them" -- and so on, till the statistics get to be pretty dry.
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