The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s9.9
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s9.9
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c31.s9.9
Tod and the other older writers perceived long ago that the Rājpūt clans are in large part of foreign, or, as they called it, 'Scythian' descent. The more exact researches of recent times have fully confirmed this opinion, and it is now possible to indicate with a considerable degree of precision the source of the foreign blood in several of the principal clans, and at the same time to recognize the closeness of their relationship with castes which occupy a social position lower than that of the Rājpūts.