{"id":274,"date":"2007-04-13T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-04-13T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T06:16:51","slug":"muslim-rajputs-who-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Rajputs &#8211; Who are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rajput Princes at Mayo College\" alt=\"Rajput Princes at Mayo College\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/2\/20\/Monitors_Mayo_College_Ajmer.jpg\/250px-Monitors_Mayo_College_Ajmer.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Mayo College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/wiki\/Mayo_College\"><em>Mayo College<\/em><\/a><em> was opened by British Government to educate Rajput princes and other nobles in 1875 at <\/em><a title=\"Ajmer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ajmer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ajmer<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><a title=\"Rajputana\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajputana\"><em>Rajputana<\/em><\/a><em>. Viewed in this picture are first four Rajput princes and extreme right is Muslim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Muslim Rajputs<\/strong> (more commonly known as <strong>Musalman Rajputs<\/strong> within <a title=\"India\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> and <a title=\"Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan<\/a>) are <a title=\"Rajputs\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajputs\" target=\"_blank\">Rajputs<\/a> who practice <a title=\"Islam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\" target=\"_blank\">Islam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rajputs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/wiki\/Rajputs\">Rajputs<\/a> (<a title=\"Urdu\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urdu\" target=\"_blank\">Urdu<\/a>: \u0631\u0627\u062c\u067e\u0648\u062a, <a title=\"Hindi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindi\" target=\"_blank\">Hindi<\/a>: \u0930\u093e\u091c\u092a\u0942\u0924) were the warrior and ruling clans of <a title=\"India\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> during the classical period, i.e. 8-13th century. They originally hailed from the historical state of <a title=\"Rajputana\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajputana\" target=\"_blank\">Rajputana<\/a>, which is in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>The term <a title=\"Rajput\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rajput\" target=\"_blank\">Rajput<\/a> is traditionally applied to the original <a title=\"Suryavanshi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suryavanshi\" target=\"_blank\">Suryavanshi<\/a>, <a title=\"Chandravanshi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandravanshi\" target=\"_blank\">Chandravanshi<\/a> and <a title=\"Agnivanshi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agnivanshi\" target=\"_blank\">Agnivanshi<\/a> clans.<\/p>\n<p>The 1931 census of <a title=\"British India\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_India\" target=\"_blank\">British India<\/a> was the last to record caste affiliation in a manner that provides reliable information on Rajput demographics. Any present-day estimates are therefore speculative; they also vary widely.<\/p>\n<p>The 1931 census reported a total of 10.7 million people self-describing as Rajput. Of this population, about 8.6 million people also self-described as being <a title=\"Hindu\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindu\" target=\"_blank\">Hindu<\/a>, about 2.1 million as being <a title=\"Muslim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim<\/a> and about 50,000 as being <a title=\"Sikh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikh\" target=\"_blank\">Sikh<\/a> by religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim_Rajputs\" target=\"_blank\">More at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rajput Princes at Mayo College\" alt=\"Rajput Princes at Mayo College\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/2\/20\/Monitors_Mayo_College_Ajmer.jpg\/250px-Monitors_Mayo_College_Ajmer.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Muslim Rajputs (more commonly known as Musalman Rajputs within India and Pakistan) are Rajputs who practice Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Rajputs (Urdu: \u0631\u0627\u062c\u067e\u0648\u062a, Hindi: \u0930\u093e\u091c\u092a\u0942\u0924) were the warrior and ruling clans of India during the classical period, i.e. 8-13th century. They originally hailed from the historical state of Rajputana, which is in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>The term Rajput is traditionally applied to the original Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi and Agnivanshi clans.<\/p>\n<p>The 1931 census of British India was the last to record caste affiliation in a manner that provides reliable information on Rajput demographics. Any present-day estimates are therefore speculative; they also vary widely.<\/p>\n<p>The 1931 census reported a total of 10.7 million people self-describing as Rajput. Of this population, about 8.6 million people also self-described as being Hindu, about 2.1 million as being Muslim and about 50,000 as being Sikh by religion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,2,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4677,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-4q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}