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The Fire-born Rajputs

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The Rajputs are warrior communities who thrived in the shadows of the Aravalli mountains and controlled the Thar Desert. Some even lived in…

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the fire-born rajputs

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist

The Rajputs are warrior communities who thrived in the shadows of the Aravalli mountains and controlled the Thar Desert. Some even lived in the Punjab plains and Malwa plateau. They rose to prominence during the Mughal era, and scholars have long been trying to understand their emergence, as there is no real reference to Rajputs in Vedic literature or later Puranic literature.

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