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Rajput people (Odisha)
| Odia Rajputs | |
|---|---|
| ଓଡ଼ିଆ ରାଜପୁତ | |
 Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo of the Patna State and 6th Chief minister of Odisha(1967-71) | |
| Classification | Rajput |
| Religions | Hinduism |
| Languages | Odia |
| Populated states | Odisha |
| Status | Forward caste |
Rajput people or Kshatriyas[1][2] of Odisha[3][4][5] are an Odia-speaking Rajput community from the state who are belongs to royal families of odisha. They observed Upanayan and considered next rank to Brahmins. Their population in Odisha is rather sparse.[6][7]
History
The Rajputs are classified as Forward castes in Odisha.[8]
A prominent dynasty which established its rule especially in the Western Odisha region was the Chauhan dynasty at Balangir by Ramai Deva in 1360 CE which led to the foundation of the princely state of Patna and its collateral branches of Sambalpur and Sonepur.[9]
States under Rajput dynasties
- Chauhan dynasty[10]
- Patna State (princely state)
- Sambalpur State (princely state)
- Sonepur State (princely state)
- Khariar zamindari
- Jarasingha zamindari
References
- ↑ Kotamraju Narayana Rao; S. S. Ahluwalia (1990). Mandal Report X-rayed. Eastern Books. ISBN 978-81-85186-09-2.
- ↑ Dor Bahadur Bista (1980). People of Nepal. Ratna Pustak Bhandar.
- ↑ Eugenia Vanina 2012, p. 140 "Almost all Rajput clans originated from the semi-nomadic pastoralists of the Indian north and north-west.
- ↑ Doris Marion Kling (1993). The Emergence of Jaipur State: Rajput Response to Mughal Rule, 1562–1743. University of Pennsylvania. p. 30.
Rajput: Pastoral, mobile warrior groups who achieved landed status in the medieval period claimed to be Kshatriyas and called themselves Rajputs.
- ↑ André Wink (1991). Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest : 11Th-13th Centuries. BRILL. p. 171. ISBN 90-04-10236-1.
...and it is very probable that the other fire-born Rajput clans like the Caulukyas, Paramaras, Cahamanas, as well as the Tomaras and others who in the eighth and ninth centuries were subordinate to the Gurjara-Pratiharas, were of similar pastoral origin, that is, that they originally belonged to the mobile, nomadic groups...
- ↑ Rabindra Nath Pati (2008). Family Planning. APH Publishing. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-81-313-0352-8.
- ↑ "Rajput". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ↑ "Religion, caste don't count in Odisha polls". Deccan Herald. 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
- ↑ Brundaban Mishra (2012), Social Structure Of Western Orissa Under The Chauhans Of Sambalpur, JHSS, retrieved 10 March 2021
- ↑ Raghumani Naik (3 March 2018), GENEALOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CHAUHAN RULERS OF PATNAGARH IN WESTERN ORISSA: A STUDY, IRJHRSS, retrieved 10 March 2021
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