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  2. Rajputisation - Wikipedia

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    This process of generation of the Rajput community resulted in hypergamy as well as female infanticide that was common in Hindu Rajput clans. [1] [2] [4] [13] German historian Hermann Kulke has coined the term "Secondary Rajputisation" for describing the process of members of a tribe trying to re-associate themselves with their former tribal ...

  3. BASH! (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

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    Samara found the biggest issue of the game was "the apparent lack of consistency. For me, game design should hew to the Hellenic concept of kallos; beautiful symmetry. I believe that a lot of the inconsistency in BASH! only needs a little work to fix; the kallos can be coaxed out without too much work. But it is there, all across the board."

  4. List of Brahmin dynasties and states - Wikipedia

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    Bhawal Estate of Bengal - ruled by Choudhary lineage - (Shrotriya Brahmin) Bhor State, a 9 gun salute princely state ruled by Deshasthas Brahmins; Chaube Jagirs were a group of five feudatory princely states of central India during the period of the British Raj, which were ruled by different branches of Brahmin families.

  5. Moheschunder Bannerjee - Wikipedia

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    Moheschunder Bannerjee or Mahesh Chandra Banerjee was a chess player from Bengal, many hundred of whose games survive through the writings of John Cochrane, who regularly played Bannerjee between 1848 and 1860, during Cochrane's tenure at the Calcutta bar.

  6. Deshastha Brahmin - Wikipedia

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    Deshastha Brahmin is a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and North Karnataka. [5] Other than these states, according to authors K. S. Singh, Gregory Naik and Pran Nath Chopra, Deshastha Brahmins are also concentrated in the states of Telangana [6] [1] (which was earlier part of Hyderabad State and Berar Division), Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (Which was ...

  7. Rajput - Wikipedia

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    Rajput women could be incorporated into Mughal Harem and this defined the Mughals as overlords over the Rajput clans. The Sisodia clan of Mewar was an exception as they refused to send their women to the Mughal Harem which resulted in siege and mass suicide at Chittor. [235]

  8. Jadeja - Wikipedia

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    Jadeja (Gujarati, Sindhi: Jāḍejā, [1] or Jāṛejā [2]) is a Samma Rajput clan that inhabits the Indian state of Gujarat and the Tharparkar district of Sindh, Pakistan. [3] [4] They originated from Sammas of Sindh, [5] [6] a pastoral group, and laid a claim on the Rajput identity [7] after marriages with Sodha Rajput women [8] [9] by adopting a process called Rajputisation.

  9. Vishwakarma community - Wikipedia

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    The community claims to be descended from the god Vishvakarma, who is considered by Hindus to be the divine architect or engineer of the universe.He had five children — Manu, Maya, Tvastar, Shilpi and Visvajna — and these are believed by the Vishwakarma community to have been the forebears of their five subgroups, being respectively the gotras (clans) of blacksmiths, carpenters, bell ...