Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s3.t1.100

v2.c28.s3.t1.100

Classes of Inhabitants.—Of this amount, the following is the classification of the tribes. The Jats constitute five-eighths, the Rajputs two-eighths,² while the remaining classes, sacerdotal,³ commercial, and servile, make up the integral number. If this calculation be near the truth, the Rajputs, men, women, and children, will amount to five hundred thousand souls, which would admit of fifty thousand men capable of bearing arms, especially when we recollect that the Jats or Jāts are the industrious class.