Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c18.s2.27
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c18.s2.27
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v1.c18.s2.27
² I have often received the most confidential messages, from chiefs of the highest rank, through these channels. [There are, at the present day, several bastard castes originally composed of the illegitimate children of men of rank, Rājputs, Brāhmans, Mahājans, and others. These are now recruited from the descendants of such persons, and from recently born illegitimate children (Census Report, Rajputana, 1911, i. 249 f.).]