The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c15.34

c15.34

Rāwat. This is a name which in Northern India indicates generally any respectable Hindu landholder who is not of very high caste. Mahomedan writers not infrequently apply it to the general body of Mahrattah soldiery, most of whom were of the kūnbi caste, for which such an epithet would be appropriate. It is applied in this sense by the author of the Ḥusain-shāhī to 12,000 men, who served in Sendhiah (Scindiah) Paṭel’s army during the campaign ending in the battle of Pānīpat (1760—1761).