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	The Gautam ''Rajputs ~~are~~ a clan found in the [[India~~\|Indian~~]] states of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Singh \|first1=Ram Bali \|title=Rajput Clan-settlements in Varanasi District \|date=1975 \|publisher=National Geographical Society of India \|page=61}}</ref>, [[Bihar]] ~~and [[Madhya Pradesh]].~~<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Singh\|first1=Ram Bali\|title=Clan Settlements in the Saran Plain (Middle Ganga Valley): A Study in Cultural Geography\|date=1977\|publisher=National Geographical Society of India, Banaras Hindu University\|pages=145}}</ref> [[:hi:~~जोधा_सिंह_अटैया~~\|Jodha ~~singh~~ Attaiya]] a great chieftain during [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian rebellion of 1857]] also belongs to this ancient clan.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Division\|first=Publications\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiIPDgAAQBAJ~~&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT95~~&dq=jodha+singh+ataiya&hl=en\|title=~~WHO’S~~ WHO OF INDIAN MARTYRS Vol 3\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|isbn=978-81-230-2182-9\|language=en}}</ref>
			The '''Gautam''' Rajputs is a Rajput clan found in the [[India]]n states of [[Uttar Pradesh]],<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Singh \|first1=Ram Bali \|title=Rajput Clan-settlements in Varanasi District \|date=1975 \|publisher=National Geographical Society of India \|page=61}}</ref> [[Bihar]]<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Singh\|first1=Ram Bali\|title=Clan Settlements in the Saran Plain (Middle Ganga Valley): A Study in Cultural Geography\|date=1977\|publisher=National Geographical Society of India, Banaras Hindu University\|pages=145}}</ref> and [[Madhya Pradesh]]. [[:hi:जोधा सिंह अटैया\|Jodha Singh Attaiya]] a great chieftain during [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian rebellion of 1857]] also belongs to this ancient clan.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Division\|first=Publications\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiIPDgAAQBAJ&dq=jodha+singh+ataiya&pg=PT95\|title=WHO'S WHO OF INDIAN MARTYRS Vol 3\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|isbn=978-81-230-2182-9\|language=en}}</ref>

	==History==		==History==
	Some ~~Rajputs~~ fought for [[Sher Shah Suri]] (otherwise known as Sher Khan) against [[Humayun]] in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 \|first=Dirk H. A. \|last=Kolff \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|year=2002 \|orig-year=First published 1990 \|isbn=978-0-52152-305-9 \|page=65 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA65}}</ref> Later, some of the community were awarded [[zamindar]]is by the [[Mughal Empire\|Mughal emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=The Eighteenth Century in India \|first=Seema \|last=Alavi \|page=94 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=2002 \|isbn=978-0-19565-640-4}}</ref> an example of which was the family settled in [[Azamgarh]] that took the title of ''[[Raja]]'' from around 1609.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India \|first=Richard Gabriel \|last=Fox \|publisher=University of California Press \|year=1971 \|isbn=978-0-52001-807-5 \|page=107 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA107}}</ref> By the time of [[Aurangzeb]]'s reign, the ~~rajputs~~ had gained enough strength to field armed contingents including artillery, horse cavalry and elephants and made incursions against the neighboring ~~zamindars~~ of [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name="agrarian">{{cite book \|chapter=Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century\|title=The Mughal State 1526-1750 \|editor=Muzaffar Alam \|editor2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam \|author=Muzaffar Alam \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=1998 \|isbn=978-0195652253 \|pages=461–463 \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.129954/2015.129954.The-Mughal-State-1526-1750_djvu.txt}}</ref> One late 17th-century rajput chief from the Azamgarh area, named Bikramajit Singh, a descendant of Gautam Rajputs of Mehnagar in pargana Nizamabad, converted to Islam like some of his predecessors. His sons and descendants went on to found communities, establish markets and construct improvements such as a canal connecting the [[Tons River]] with the Kol.<ref name="agrarian" />		Some people fought for [[Sher Shah Suri]] (otherwise known as Sher Khan) against [[Humayun]] in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India \|first=Richard Gabriel \|last=Fox \|publisher=University of California Press \|year=1971 \|isbn=978-0-52001-807-5 \|page=107 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA107}}</ref> By the time of [[Aurangzeb]]'s reign, the Gautam Rajputs had gained enough strength to field armed contingents including artillery, horse cavalry and elephants and made incursions against the neighboring Bhumihars of [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name="agrarian">{{cite book \|chapter=Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century\|title=The Mughal State 1526-1750 \|editor=Muzaffar Alam \|editor2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam \|author=Muzaffar Alam \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=1998 \|isbn=978-0195652253 \|pages=461–463 \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.129954/2015.129954.The-Mughal-State-1526-1750_djvu.txt}}</ref> One late 17th-century rajput chief from the Azamgarh area, named Bikramajit Singh, a descendant of Gautam Rajputs of Mehnagar in pargana Nizamabad, converted to Islam like some of his predecessors. His sons and descendants went on to found communities, establish markets and construct improvements such as a canal connecting the [[Tons River]] with the Kol.<ref name="agrarian" />

	In the case of one ~~Rajput~~ family, from [[Nagar, Uttar Pradesh\|Nagar]], the decision by the British [[East India Company]] to dispossess them in favour of another landholder was the cause of them joining in the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite journal \|title=1857: Need for Alternative Sources \|first=Pankaj \|last=Rag \|journal=Social Scientist \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|year=1998 \|pages=113–147 \|doi=10.2307/3517585 \|jstor=3517585 }}</ref> This was in part a result of British policies that led to declining socio-economic fortunes and thus a reduction in their ability to construct favourable marriage alliances.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India \|editor1-first=Harald \|editor1-last=Fischer-Tiné \|editor2-first=Michael \|editor2-last=Mann \|publisher=Anthem Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=978-1-84331-363-2 \|pages=126–128 \|first=Malavika \|last=Kasturi \|chapter=Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMh8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126}}</ref>		In the case of one Gautam family, from [[Nagar, Uttar Pradesh\|Nagar]], the decision by the British [[East India Company]] to dispossess them in favour of another landholder was the cause of them joining in the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite journal \|title=1857: Need for Alternative Sources \|first=Pankaj \|last=Rag \|journal=Social Scientist \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|year=1998 \|pages=113–147 \|doi=10.2307/3517585 \|jstor=3517585 }}</ref> This was in part a result of British policies that led to declining socio-economic fortunes and thus a reduction in their ability to construct favourable marriage alliances.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India \|editor1-first=Harald \|editor1-last=Fischer-Tiné \|editor2-first=Michael \|editor2-last=Mann \|publisher=Anthem Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=978-1-84331-363-2 \|pages=126–128 \|first=Malavika \|last=Kasturi \|chapter=Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMh8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|title=Mixed Strains \|publisher=India Today \|first= Subhash \|last=Mishra \|date=2002-07-15 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034445/http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|archivedate=2015-09-24}}</ref>

	~~Today, some~~ Rajputs~~, who also refer to themselves as ''Thakurs'',~~ are ~~Muslim~~ and ~~others are Hindus. However~~, ~~their social and religious customs blur the lines that might usually be expected to exist between different religious communities in India. Indeed~~, ~~their common identity as Rajputs often over-rides their differences in religion~~ and ~~they can be found participating in each~~ other~~'s customs and rituals~~.<ref>{{cite ~~web~~\|~~url~~=~~http://www.indiatoday~~.~~com/itoday/20020715/living~~.~~shtml~~ \|title=~~Mixed Strains~~ \|~~publisher~~=~~India Today~~ \|~~first~~= ~~Subhash~~ \|~~last~~=~~Mishra~~ \|~~date~~=~~2002-07-15~~ \|~~archiveurl~~=https://~~web~~.~~archive~~.~~org~~/~~web~~/~~20150924034445~~/~~http:~~/~~/www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml~~ \|~~archivedate~~=~~2015-09-24~~}}</ref>		==Note==
			Gautam Rajputs are one of the prominent Rajput clan and these should not be misunderstood with other castes such as Gautam Brahmans, Gautam Bhumihars, and other scheduled castes or scheduled tribes.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Bingley \|first1=A.H. \|title=Handbook on Rajputs \|year=2020 \|publisher=Asian Educational Services \|isbn=9788121234689 \|pages=26 \|url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Handbook_on_Rajputs/Cc2HyXP5dygC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA26&printsec=frontcover \|ref=}}</ref>

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	The Gautam ''Rajputs'' are a clan found in the [[India\|Indian]] states of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Singh \|first1=Ram Bali \|title=Rajput Clan-settlements in Varanasi District \|date=1975 \|publisher=National Geographical Society of India \|page=61}}</ref> and [[~~Bihar~~]].<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Singh \|first1=Ram Bali \|title=Clan Settlements in the Saran Plain (Middle Ganga Valley): A Study in Cultural Geography \|date=1977 \|publisher=National Geographical Society of India, Banaras Hindu University \|pages=145}}</ref> [[:hi:जोधा_सिंह_अटैया\|Jodha singh Attaiya]] a great chieftain during [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian rebellion of 1857]] also belongs to this ancient clan.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Division\|first=Publications\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiIPDgAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT95&dq=jodha+singh+ataiya&hl=en\|title=WHO’S WHO OF INDIAN MARTYRS Vol 3\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|isbn=978-81-230-2182-9\|language=en}}</ref>		The Gautam ''Rajputs are a clan found in the [[India\|Indian]] states of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Singh \|first1=Ram Bali \|title=Rajput Clan-settlements in Varanasi District \|date=1975 \|publisher=National Geographical Society of India \|page=61}}</ref>, [[Bihar]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Singh\|first1=Ram Bali\|title=Clan Settlements in the Saran Plain (Middle Ganga Valley): A Study in Cultural Geography\|date=1977\|publisher=National Geographical Society of India, Banaras Hindu University\|pages=145}}</ref> [[:hi:जोधा_सिंह_अटैया\|Jodha singh Attaiya]] a great chieftain during [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian rebellion of 1857]] also belongs to this ancient clan.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Division\|first=Publications\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiIPDgAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT95&dq=jodha+singh+ataiya&hl=en\|title=WHO’S WHO OF INDIAN MARTYRS Vol 3\|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting\|isbn=978-81-230-2182-9\|language=en}}</ref>

	==History==		==History==
	Some Rajputs fought for [[Sher Shah Suri]] (otherwise known as Sher Khan) against [[Humayun]] in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 \|first=Dirk H. A. \|last=Kolff \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|year=2002 \|orig-year=First published 1990 \|isbn=978-0-52152-305-9 \|page=65 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA65}}</ref> Later, some of the community were awarded [[zamindar]]is by the [[Mughal Empire\|Mughal emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=The Eighteenth Century in India \|first=Seema \|last=Alavi \|page=94 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=2002 \|isbn=978-0-19565-640-4}}</ref> an example of which was the family settled in [[Azamgarh]] that took the title of ''[[Raja]]'' from around 1609.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India \|first=Richard Gabriel \|last=Fox \|publisher=University of California Press \|year=1971 \|isbn=978-0-52001-807-5 \|page=107 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA107}}</ref> By the time of [[Aurangzeb]]'s reign, the rajputs had gained enough strength to field armed contingents including artillery, horse cavalry and elephants and made incursions against the neighboring zamindars of [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name="agrarian">{{cite book \|chapter=Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century\|title=The Mughal State 1526-1750 \|editor=Muzaffar Alam \|editor2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam \|author=Muzaffar Alam \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=1998 \|isbn=978-0195652253 \|pages=461–463 \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.129954/2015.129954.The-Mughal-State-1526-1750_djvu.txt}}</ref> One late 17th-century rajput chief from the Azamgarh area, named Bikramajit Singh, converted to Islam ~~after Aurangzeb threatened that he would otherwise be executed.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Spirals~~ of ~~Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947 \|first=Satish \|last=Saberwal \|publisher=Routledge \|year=2008 \|isbn=978-0-415-46735-3 \|page=25 \|url=https://books.google~~.~~com/books?id=AALgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25}}</ref>~~ His sons and descendants went on to found communities, establish markets and construct improvements such as a canal connecting the [[Tons River]] with the Kol.<ref name="agrarian" />		Some Rajputs fought for [[Sher Shah Suri]] (otherwise known as Sher Khan) against [[Humayun]] in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 \|first=Dirk H. A. \|last=Kolff \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|year=2002 \|orig-year=First published 1990 \|isbn=978-0-52152-305-9 \|page=65 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA65}}</ref> Later, some of the community were awarded [[zamindar]]is by the [[Mughal Empire\|Mughal emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=The Eighteenth Century in India \|first=Seema \|last=Alavi \|page=94 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=2002 \|isbn=978-0-19565-640-4}}</ref> an example of which was the family settled in [[Azamgarh]] that took the title of ''[[Raja]]'' from around 1609.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India \|first=Richard Gabriel \|last=Fox \|publisher=University of California Press \|year=1971 \|isbn=978-0-52001-807-5 \|page=107 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA107}}</ref> By the time of [[Aurangzeb]]'s reign, the rajputs had gained enough strength to field armed contingents including artillery, horse cavalry and elephants and made incursions against the neighboring zamindars of [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name="agrarian">{{cite book \|chapter=Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century\|title=The Mughal State 1526-1750 \|editor=Muzaffar Alam \|editor2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam \|author=Muzaffar Alam \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=1998 \|isbn=978-0195652253 \|pages=461–463 \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.129954/2015.129954.The-Mughal-State-1526-1750_djvu.txt}}</ref> One late 17th-century rajput chief from the Azamgarh area, named Bikramajit Singh, a descendant of Gautam Rajputs of Mehnagar in pargana Nizamabad, converted to Islam like some of his predecessors. His sons and descendants went on to found communities, establish markets and construct improvements such as a canal connecting the [[Tons River]] with the Kol.<ref name="agrarian" />

	In the case of one Rajput family, from [[Nagar, Uttar Pradesh\|Nagar]], the decision by the British [[East India Company]] to dispossess them in favour of another landholder was the cause of them joining in the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite journal \|title=1857: Need for Alternative Sources \|first=Pankaj \|last=Rag \|journal=Social Scientist \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|year=1998 \|pages=113–147 \|doi=10.2307/3517585 \|jstor=3517585 }}</ref> ~~Prior to that rebellion, some communities, in common with other groups that once held high status and power, were practitioners of [[female infanticide]].~~ This was in part a result of British policies that led to declining socio-economic fortunes and thus a reduction in their ability to construct favourable marriage alliances.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India \|editor1-first=Harald \|editor1-last=Fischer-Tiné \|editor2-first=Michael \|editor2-last=Mann \|publisher=Anthem Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=978-1-84331-363-2 \|pages=126–128 \|first=Malavika \|last=Kasturi \|chapter=Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMh8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126}}</ref>		In the case of one Rajput family, from [[Nagar, Uttar Pradesh\|Nagar]], the decision by the British [[East India Company]] to dispossess them in favour of another landholder was the cause of them joining in the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite journal \|title=1857: Need for Alternative Sources \|first=Pankaj \|last=Rag \|journal=Social Scientist \|volume=26 \|issue=1 \|year=1998 \|pages=113–147 \|doi=10.2307/3517585 \|jstor=3517585 }}</ref> This was in part a result of British policies that led to declining socio-economic fortunes and thus a reduction in their ability to construct favourable marriage alliances.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India \|editor1-first=Harald \|editor1-last=Fischer-Tiné \|editor2-first=Michael \|editor2-last=Mann \|publisher=Anthem Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=978-1-84331-363-2 \|pages=126–128 \|first=Malavika \|last=Kasturi \|chapter=Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMh8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126}}</ref>

	Today, some Rajputs, who also refer to themselves as ''Thakurs'', are Muslim and others are Hindus. However, their social and religious customs blur the lines that might usually be expected to exist between different religious communities in India. Indeed, their common identity as Rajputs often over-rides their differences in religion and they can be found participating in each other's customs and rituals.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|title=Mixed Strains \|publisher=India Today \|first= Subhash \|last=Mishra \|date=2002-07-15 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034445/http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|archivedate=2015-09-24}}</ref>		Today, some Rajputs, who also refer to themselves as ''Thakurs'', are Muslim and others are Hindus. However, their social and religious customs blur the lines that might usually be expected to exist between different religious communities in India. Indeed, their common identity as Rajputs often over-rides their differences in religion and they can be found participating in each other's customs and rituals.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|title=Mixed Strains \|publisher=India Today \|first= Subhash \|last=Mishra \|date=2002-07-15 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034445/http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml \|archivedate=2015-09-24}}</ref>
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The Gautam ''Rajputs'' are a clan found in the [[India|Indian]] states of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Ram Bali |title=Rajput Clan-settlements in Varanasi District |date=1975 |publisher=National Geographical Society of India |page=61}}</ref> and [[Bihar]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Ram Bali |title=Clan Settlements in the Saran Plain (Middle Ganga Valley): A Study in Cultural Geography |date=1977 |publisher=National Geographical Society of India, Banaras Hindu University |pages=145}}</ref> [[:hi:जोधा_सिंह_अटैया|Jodha singh Attaiya]] a great chieftain during [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian rebellion of 1857]] also belongs to this ancient clan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Division|first=Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiIPDgAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT95&dq=jodha+singh+ataiya&hl=en|title=WHO’S WHO OF INDIAN MARTYRS Vol 3|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=978-81-230-2182-9|language=en}}</ref>

==History==
Some Rajputs fought for [[Sher Shah Suri]] (otherwise known as Sher Khan) against [[Humayun]] in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book |title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850 |first=Dirk H. A. |last=Kolff |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |orig-year=First published 1990 |isbn=978-0-52152-305-9 |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA65}}</ref> Later, some of the community were awarded [[zamindar]]is by the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The Eighteenth Century in India |first=Seema |last=Alavi |page=94 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19565-640-4}}</ref> an example of which was the family settled in [[Azamgarh]] that took the title of ''[[Raja]]'' from around 1609.<ref>{{cite book |title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India |first=Richard Gabriel |last=Fox |publisher=University of California Press |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-52001-807-5 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA107}}</ref> By the time of [[Aurangzeb]]'s reign, the rajputs had gained enough strength to field armed contingents including artillery, horse cavalry and elephants and made incursions against the neighboring zamindars of [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name="agrarian">{{cite book |chapter=Aspects of Agrarian Uprisings in North India in the Early Eighteenth Century|title=The Mughal State 1526-1750 |editor=Muzaffar Alam |editor2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam |author=Muzaffar Alam |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0195652253 |pages=461–463 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.129954/2015.129954.The-Mughal-State-1526-1750_djvu.txt}}</ref> One late 17th-century rajput chief from the Azamgarh area, named Bikramajit Singh, converted to Islam after Aurangzeb threatened that he would otherwise be executed.<ref>{{cite book |title=Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947 |first=Satish |last=Saberwal |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-46735-3 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AALgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25}}</ref> His sons and descendants went on to found communities, establish markets and construct improvements such as a canal connecting the [[Tons River]] with the Kol.<ref name="agrarian" />

In the case of one Rajput family, from [[Nagar, Uttar Pradesh|Nagar]], the decision by the British [[East India Company]] to dispossess them in favour of another landholder was the cause of them joining in the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=1857: Need for Alternative Sources |first=Pankaj |last=Rag |journal=Social Scientist |volume=26 |issue=1 |year=1998 |pages=113–147 |doi=10.2307/3517585 |jstor=3517585 }}</ref> Prior to that rebellion, some communities, in common with other groups that once held high status and power, were practitioners of [[female infanticide]]. This was in part a result of British policies that led to declining socio-economic fortunes and thus a reduction in their ability to construct favourable marriage alliances.<ref>{{cite book |title=Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India |editor1-first=Harald |editor1-last=Fischer-Tiné |editor2-first=Michael |editor2-last=Mann |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-84331-363-2 |pages=126–128 |first=Malavika |last=Kasturi |chapter=Taming the 'Dangerous' Rajput; Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Colonial North India |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMh8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126}}</ref>

Today, some Rajputs, who also refer to themselves as ''Thakurs'', are Muslim and others are Hindus. However, their social and religious customs blur the lines that might usually be expected to exist between different religious communities in India. Indeed, their common identity as Rajputs often over-rides their differences in religion and they can be found participating in each other's customs and rituals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml |title=Mixed Strains |publisher=India Today |first= Subhash |last=Mishra |date=2002-07-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034445/http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020715/living.shtml |archivedate=2015-09-24}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |first1=S. Hasan |last1=Ansari |first2=Mohd. |last2=Saleem |title=Spatial Diffusion of Gautam Rajput Clan Settlements in Ghazipur District |journal=Man in India |volume=60 |issue=3 |year=1980 |pages=278–281}}

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