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'''Rajput''' is a [[Hindu]] [[Kshatriya]] caste. They claim descent from the ancient royal warrior dynasties of Kshatriyas in India and Pakistan and are found predominantly also in [[Rajputana]], an area which has come to be known as [[Rajasthan]] after the formation of this state in independent, post-colonial India. Lord Rama was a Kshatriya of the Raghuvanshi clan. They are numerous in [[Uttar Pradesh]] (UP), [[Rajasthan]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Gujarat]], [[Bihar]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], [[Jammu & Kashmir]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[Delhi]] in [[India]]. Within the Hindu [[caste system]], present day Rajputs constitute one of the principal groups belonging to the [[Kshatriya]] [[varna (caste)|varna]]. The Rajputs ruled more than four hundred out of six hundred estimated number of princely states at the time of independence of India and Pakistan. Out of many princely states 117 were saluted states in India and 4 in Pakistan total states 121. ([[Salute states]]). Rajputs ruled 81 states in India out of 121 states in 1947.They are counted in [[Salute states]]. The Rajputs have always been martial.{{Fact|date=July 2007}} The [[Mughal]] and the British Government also accepted it and recruited them heavily in their armies. the rajputs were dumb asses.
[[Image:Monitors Mayo College Ajmer.jpg|thumb|[[Mayo College]] was opened by the British Government to educate Rajput princes and other nobles in 1875 at [[Ajmer]] [[Rajputana]]. Viewed in this picture are first four Rajput princes and extreme right is Muslim.]]
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