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10 unusual facts about Rajputana


Alfred Comyn Lyall

Lyall's ideas regarding the development and organisation of society in India were developed principally during the time he spent working in the Central Provinces, Berar and Rajputana between 1865 and 1878.

Brenda Colvin

She was born in India where her father, Sir Elliot Graham Colvin, was a senior administrator in Kashmir and Rajputana.

Edward Wakefield

Educated at Haileybury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1927 and served in Punjab, Rajputana, Kathiawar, Baluchistan, Central India, Tibet and the Persian Gulf.

Johore Wooden Railway

In 1875, the Maharaja of Johore purchased a second-hand Indian steam locomotive, an Indian State Railway Class B 0-4-4T number B27 (number 89 on the Rajputana State Railway) manufactured by Dübs (742/1874), suggesting, while unverified, its use in the JWR.

Rajputana-Malwa Railway

The Railway was renamed as Rajputana-Malwa Railway when a new line from Ajmer to Khandwa via.

Sarna clan

Over the course of time, Sarnas migrated to places across Punjab from their original homeland in Ajmer-Merwara and Rajputana.

Sindhis in India

However, because of a genocide in that Muslim country, a sense of better opportunities in India, and most of all a sudden influx of Muslim refugees from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central Provinces, Hyderabad State, Rajputana (Rajasthan) and other parts of India, many Sindhi Hindus decided to leave Pakistan.

Thomas Holbein Hendley

From 1873 to 1897 he was the Residency Surgeon of Jaipur, and from 1894 to 1897 the Administrative Medical Officer for Rajputana.

University of Rajasthan

It was set up on 8 January 1947 as the University of Rajputana and was given its current name in the year 1956.

White-footed fox

The white-footed fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla), also known as the desert fox, is a small, Asiatic subspecies of red fox which occurs throughout most of northwestern Indian subcontinent, Pakistan's desert districts from Rawalpindi to Rajputana and Kutch in India, Baluchistan, southern Iran, and Iraq.


Bhatia caste

Denzil Ibbetson, an ethnographer of the British Raj, noted that many were found in Sindh and Gujarat in the 19th century CE but that there were grounds to believe that they had migrated from Bhatner, Jaisalmer and the area then known as Rajputana (approximating to modern-day Rajasthan).

Chittod Ki Rani Padmini Ka Johur

Parallel to this story is the tale of North India's then ruler Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji, usurper of his uncle's throne through deceit and murder, who is now intent on conquering Rajputana and its kingdoms (including Chittod).

She falls in love with Rana Ratan Singh, the heir to the throne of Chittod, Rajputana who comes to Singhaldweep after seeing a painting of her in his palace made by Chittod's painter Chetan Raghav.

Duncan Sommerville

The Rev Dr James Sommerville had been responsible for establishing the hospital at Jodhpur, Rajputana.

Ganga Sahai Sharma

Ganga Sahai Sharma was an extremely accomplished late 19th century Sanskrit Scholar in the Bundi state of Rajasthan (at time known as Rajputana) in Colonial British India.

George Russell Clerk

He thus worked as an Assistant to the President in Rajputana and Delhi, before being posted as Political Agent at Ambala and subsequently at Ludhiana in 1839 and Lahore in 1840.

Padmâvatî

The composer was inspired by his visit to the ruined city of Chittor in Rajputana (now Rajasthan) and he incorporated many features of Indian music into the score.

Rajputana Rifles

The name Rajputana Rifles is derived from the Rajput a Hindu clan and the word Rajputana which was the old name of Rajasthan.

Siege of Ranthambore

Akbar had first besieged Ranthambore Fort in the year 1558, but decided instead to capture Gwalior, northern Rajputana and Jaunpur.

Sukha Singh

Punjab had gone through an era of Sikh persecution under the Mughal governor of Lahore Zakriya Khan from 1726 to 1745 A.D. The Sikhs of Punjab had taken refuge in the deserts of the Rajputana.