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	'''Rājputhana''', meaning "Land of the [[Rajputs]]",<ref name=rajputana>{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490168/Rajputana\|title=Rajputana\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> was a region in [[~~India~~]] that included mainly the present-day [[States of India\|Indian state]] of [[Rajasthan]], as well as parts of [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Gujarat]],<ref name="rajputana" /> and some adjoining areas of [[Sindh]] in modern-day southern Pakistan.<ref name="rajput">{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490157/Rajput\|title=Rajput\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>		'''Rājputhana''', meaning "Land of the [[Rajputs]]",<ref name=rajputana>{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490168/Rajputana\|title=Rajputana\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> was a region in [[South Asia]] that included mainly the present-day [[States of India\|Indian state]] of [[Rajasthan]], as well as parts of [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Gujarat]],<ref name="rajputana" /> and some adjoining areas of [[Sindh]] in modern-day southern Pakistan.<ref name="rajput">{{cite web\|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490157/Rajput\|title=Rajput\|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

	The main settlements to the west of the [[Aravalli Hills]] came to be known as ''Rajputana'', early in the [[Medieval India\|Medieval Period]].<ref>{{cite book \|title= Social Cultural History of Ancient India \|first=Manilal \|last=Bose \|publisher=Concept Publishing Company \|year=1998 \|page=27 \|isbn=978-81-702-2598-0 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_PpdZosif4C}}</ref> The name was later adopted by [[British Raj\|British government]] as the [[Rajputana Agency]] for its dependencies in the region of the present-day [[India]]n state of Rājasthān.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008">{{cite book\|author1=R.K. Gupta\|author2=S.R. Bakshi\|title=Studies In Indian History: Rajasthan Through The Ages The Heritage Of Rajputs (Set Of 5 Vols.)\|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC\|access-date=30 October 2012\|date=1 January 2008\|publisher=Sarup & Sons\|isbn=978-81-7625-841-8\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC/page/n151 143]–}}</ref> The Rajputana Agency included 18 princely states, two chiefships and the British district of [[Ajmer-Merwara]]. This British official term remained until its replacement by "Rajasthan" in the constitution of 1949.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008" />		The main settlements to the west of the [[Aravalli Hills]] came to be known as ''Rajputana'', early in the [[Medieval India\|Medieval Period]].<ref>{{cite book \|title= Social Cultural History of Ancient India \|first=Manilal \|last=Bose \|publisher=Concept Publishing Company \|year=1998 \|page=27 \|isbn=978-81-702-2598-0 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_PpdZosif4C}}</ref> The name was later adopted by [[British Raj\|British government]] as the [[Rajputana Agency]] for its dependencies in the region of the present-day [[India]]n state of Rājasthān.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008">{{cite book\|author1=R.K. Gupta\|author2=S.R. Bakshi\|title=Studies In Indian History: Rajasthan Through The Ages The Heritage Of Rajputs (Set Of 5 Vols.)\|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC\|access-date=30 October 2012\|date=1 January 2008\|publisher=Sarup & Sons\|isbn=978-81-7625-841-8\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC/page/n151 143]–}}</ref> The Rajputana Agency included 18 princely states, two chiefships and the British district of [[Ajmer-Merwara]]. This British official term remained until its replacement by "Rajasthan" in the constitution of 1949.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008" />

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{{Short description|History of rajputana}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
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[[File: Rajputana 1909.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The map of the [[Rajputana Agency]] in 1909 from the ''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India|Imperial Gazetteer]]''. Legend: princely states are in yellow]]
[[File:Map of Rajputana or Rajasthan 1920.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of Rajputana or Rajasthan, 1920]]
[[File:Map rajasthan dist all shaded.png|thumb|right|250px|Districts of the present-day state of [[Rajasthan]]]]
[[File:Rajpootana India 1831.png|right|thumb|250px|Rajpootana region as depicted in the Map of India by Anthony Finley in 1831]]
'''Rājputhana''', meaning "Land of the [[Rajputs]]",<ref name=rajputana>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490168/Rajputana|title=Rajputana|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> was a region in [[India]] that included mainly the present-day [[States of India|Indian state]] of [[Rajasthan]], as well as parts of [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Gujarat]],<ref name="rajputana" /> and some adjoining areas of [[Sindh]] in modern-day southern Pakistan.<ref name="rajput">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490157/Rajput|title=Rajput|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

The main settlements to the west of the [[Aravalli Hills]] came to be known as ''Rajputana'', early in the [[Medieval India|Medieval Period]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Social Cultural History of Ancient India |first=Manilal |last=Bose |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1998 |page=27 |isbn=978-81-702-2598-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_PpdZosif4C}}</ref> The name was later adopted by [[British Raj|British government]] as the [[Rajputana Agency]] for its dependencies in the region of the present-day [[India]]n state of Rājasthān.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008">{{cite book|author1=R.K. Gupta|author2=S.R. Bakshi|title=Studies In Indian History: Rajasthan Through The Ages The Heritage Of Rajputs (Set Of 5 Vols.)|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC|access-date=30 October 2012|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-841-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S7dCkiyLJ6EC/page/n151 143]–}}</ref> The Rajputana Agency included 18 princely states, two chiefships and the British district of [[Ajmer-Merwara]]. This British official term remained until its replacement by "Rajasthan" in the constitution of 1949.<ref name="GuptaBakshi2008" />

==Name==
[[George Thomas (soldier)|George Thomas]] (''Military Memories'') was the first in 1800, to term this region the ''Rajputana Agency''.<ref name="Kapil1999">{{cite book|author=F. K. Kapil|title=Rajputana states, 1817-1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCZuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=24 June 2011|year=1999|publisher=Book Treasure|page=1}}</ref> The historian [[John Keay]] in his book, ''India: A History'', stated that the ''Rajputana'' name was coined by the [[British Raj|British]], but that the word achieved a retrospective authenticity: in an 1829 translation of Ferishta's history of early Islamic India, John Briggs discarded the phrase "Indian princes", as rendered in Dow's earlier version, and substituted "Rajpoot princes".

The region was previously long known as Gujratra (an early form of "Gujarat"), before it came to be called Rajputana during the medieval period.<ref>{{cite book
|title =India: a history
|author=John Keay
|publisher=Grove Press
|year=2001
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibLUu6RlvqwC&pg=PA231&dq
|pages =231–232
|isbn=0-8021-3797-0
|quote =Colonel [[James Tod]], who as the first British official to visit Rajasthan spent most of the 1820s exploring its political potential, formed a very different idea of "Rashboots".....and the whole region thenceforth became, for the British, 'Rajputana'. Historian [[R. C. Majumdar]] explained that the region was long known as ''Gurjaratra'' early form of Gujarat, before it came to be called Rajputana, early in the [[Muslim]] period.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ancient India|author=R.C. Majumdar|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1994|page=263|isbn=8120804368|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNxiN5tzKOgC&pg=PA263&dq}}</ref>

== Geography ==
The area of Rajputana is estimated to be 343,328 square km (132,559 square miles) and breaks down into two geographic divisions:

* An area northwest of the Arāvalli Range including part of the [[Great Indian Desert|Great Indian (Thar) Desert]], with characteristics of being sandy and unproductive.
* A higher area southeast of the range, which is fertile by comparison.

The whole area forms the hill and plateau country between the north Indian plains and the main plateau of peninsular India.{{Citation needed|date=October 2012}}

==Notes==
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==References==
#Low, Sir Francis (ed.) ''The Indian Year Book & Who’s Who 1945-46'', The Times of India Press, Bombay.
#Sharma, Nidhi ''Transition from Feudalism to Democracy'', Aalekh Publishers, Jaipur, 2000 {{ISBN|81-87359-06-4}}.
#Webb, William Wilfrid ''The Currencies of the Hindu States of Rajputana'', Archibald Constable & Co., Westminster, 1893.

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