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Excerpt from The Rajputs; A Fighting Race: A Short Account of the Rajput Race, Its Warlike Past, Its Early Connections With Great Britain, and Its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front Our object in offering this volume to the British public is to stimulate its interest in India and her people, especially in that ruling class of Indian society whose loyal action at the present moment calls for an appreciative understand ing of its motives. I refer to those princes of warlike race who are rendering such signal service to the British Empire by manfully coming forward to its help in this hour of crisis. An attempt has been made in the following pages to give some idea of that invi...
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This book traces the history of Rajput s who have been regarded as great fighters.This present volume is offered to the British people to stimulate its interest in Indiaand her people, specially in the ruling class of Indian society.The author who himself is a Rajput believes that inspite of their heroics, theirbravery and their patriotism not much has been written about them and he hasattempted to give some idea of that inviolable principle, the milestone of the socialfabric of Hinduism, which, alive now as ever, underlies the loyalty and patriotismillustrated today in a manner unparalleled in history of these hereditary warriorsof India.