HAND-BOOK ON RAJPUTS History and Origin • Geographical Distribution • Religion, Custom, and Festivals • Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/handbookonrajputOOahbi HAND-BOOK ON RAJPUTS History and Origin • Geographical Distribution • Religion, Custom, and Festivals • A. R BINGLEY ASIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES NEW DELHI ★ CHENNAI * 2011 ASIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES * 6A SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI - 110 049 Tel. : +91-11- 26491586, 26494059 Fax : Oil- 26494946 email : [email protected] * 2/15, 2nd FLOOR, ANSARI ROAD, DARYAGANJ, NEW DELHI - 1100 02 Tel: +91- 11- 23262044 email : [email protected] * 19, (NEW NO. 40), BALAJI NAGAR FIRST STREET, ROYAPETTAH, CHENNAI - 600 014 Tel. : +91- 44 - 28133040 / 28131391 Fax : 044 - 28131391 email: [email protected] www.aes.ind.in Printed and Hand-Bound in India First Published: 1899. First AES Reprint: New Delhi, 1986. Third AES Reprint: New Delhi, 2011. ISBN: 8120602048 EAN: 9788120602045 Published by Gautam Jetley For ASIAN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 6A, Shahpur Jat, New Delhi - 110 049. Processed by AES Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi-110049 Printed at Chaudhry Offset Process, Delhi - 110051. LIST OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS WORK. - • - Hindu Tribes and Castes—Sherring. Ethnographical Handbook for the North-West Provinces and Oudh —Crooke. Notes on the Hindu Religion—Newell. Notes on Rajputs—Newell. Notes on Rajputana Rajputs—Prior. Notes on Hinduism—Harris. Hindu Mythology—Wilkins. Ethnography of the Punjab—Ibbetson. Gazetteer of the North-West Provinces. Gazetteer of the Punjab. Gazetteer of the Central Provinces. Gazetteer of Oudh. Census Reports of 1881 and 1891. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia of India—Balfour. I ndia—Strachey. Indian Polity—Chesney. The History of India—Talboys Wheeler. A Student’s Manual of the History of India—Meadows Taylor, History of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Army—Broome, Historical Records of the Bengal Army—Cardew. A short History of the Indian People—Hunter. Asiatic Studies—Lyall. The Races of the North-West Provinces of India—Elliott. Brahmanism and Hinduism—Monier Williams. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh—Sleeman. Akbar—Malleson. Aurangzeb—Lane-Pool. History of the Indian Mutiny—Kaye and Malleson. History of the War in Afghanistan—Kaye. Journal of the United Service Institution of India. Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads—Aitchison, The Annals of Rajasthan—Tod. Essay on the languages, &c., of Nepal—Hodgson. Reigions of Ihdia— Hopkins. . ■ 1 ' ittiflo ■ r • 'ft Inn m ifi*mt\ I .7