Mr SKU (sakal gharelu utpad),you shouldn't have changed the title of the thread.
Rajputs dont want to let people of this country know the reality and the whole malaise lies here.
Look at the disdain and callousness with which they have made fun of the baniyas or other castes!!
This is the age of information.One cant live on false pretenses anymore.Truth is already out there in the open.
It is absolute nonsense to compare Rajputs with Marathas,
Infact its an insult to Marathas if we do that.
Truth is bitter too and the kind of uneasiness and desperation (one can see in the posts of Rajput supporters) to close this thread tells all.
Irony is,they leave no chance to deride and make fun of other castes and clans.
Just have a look at the great wars in the history of India and you will not find a single Rajput fighting in any of these.
My heart goes for those Marathas,Sikhs,Gurkhas,South Indian warriors who fought relentlessly war after war for so many years without fear against Muslim invaders and later on against the British.
And these were WARS and not battles.
And what were these Rajputs doing during these times.
A lot has already been said as to how they appeased Mughals,no need to elaborate on that.
Against the British also same thing happened but other way round
.Instead of Rajputs sending 'saugats' to British,it was the British who parked their arses in the backyards of these so called Rajputana principalities.
(Read treaty of subsidiary alliance).
Rajputana principalities were among the first ones to accept this humiliating treaty without putting up any resistance whatsoever.
The valour(of Rajputs) described in few of the above posts can be seen even to this day in our rural India.All you need is a Rajput bard to exaggerate it pompously and sing it like a canary/parrot.
Rajputs were the people recruited by the heads of Rajputana principalities to guard,look after palace and also act as a deterrant to other neighboring states' misadventure so that the head can peacefully eat ,drink and be merry.
Recruitment areas were the areas stricken with poverty where daily life is a struggle eg tribals living in deep jungles,landless labours,small time workers etc.
A safa(headgear),sword,liquor and new found status of a Durbar or Rajput (son of Raja) were motivation enough for this new recruit to be loyal to the principality.
It was same as present day multinationals who woo and motivate their workforce to compete against rival multinationals with new incentives and mottos.
It is the progeny of these recruits who are not willing to shed that covetous status even to this day(sons of kings).
Instead their insecurities make them reinforce it with pompous practices and routines.
Purity of so called 'blood' was never there which got diluted further.(Will be covered later).
When a Khilji or Tughlaq or a Mughal ordered for a few thousand foot soldiers.a few hundred horsemen or elephants for a campaign,the local rajwada would shudder in fear and would send a quickly gathered rag tag army labeled as Rajput army.(Who will come back after the campaign and take up menial jobs in the palace and around in exchange of their services)
There are instances recorded in historical documents where the delhi sultans have actually reprimanded these rajwadas for sending an army of semi dead foot soldiers and horses.
Mughal–Maratha Wars were fought between the
Maratha Empire and the
Mughal Empire from 1680 to 1707.
First Battle of Delhi or
The Raid of Delhi took place on 28 March 1737 between
Maratha Empire and the
Mughals.
Anglo–Maratha Wars were three wars fought in the Indian sub-continent between
Maratha Empire and the
British East India Company.
The
Anglo–Sikh wars were a series of 1840s conflicts between the British
East India Trading Company and the
Sikh Empire.
Anglo-Afghan War may refer to:
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
The
Gorkha War (1814–1816), or the
Anglo–Nepalese War, was fought between the
Kingdom of Gorkha (present-day
Nepal) and the
British East India Company .
The
Anglo–Mysore Wars were a series of
four wars fought in
India over the last three decades of the 18th century between the
Kingdom of Mysore, and the British
East India Company
The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761 at
Panipat. The battle pitted the
French-supplied artillery of the Marathas against the heavy cavalry of the Afghans led by
Ahmad Shah Durrani, an ethnic Pashtun, also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali.
The battle is considered one of the largest battles fought in the 18th century. Marathas were defeated with heavy casualties on both sides and retreat of Maratha army and civilians from Punjab to Delhi.
