The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.309

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¹ The Yādavas of Deogīr, like the Jādons of Sindkhed, who claimed descent from them, boasted a Rājput lineage, but the undoubted Rājputs of Rājasthān and Gujarāt, who suspect the Hindus of the south of a strain of Dravidian blood, are loth to admit such claims. It was on account of his nebulous claim to Rājput descent that Jādon Rāo of Sindkhed regarded the marriage of his daughter, Jijī Bai, to Shāhjī the Marāthā, father of Shivajī, as a *mésalliance*.