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Bring out the salient features of the polity & social structure of the Rajputs. To what extent were they responsible for the weakness of the Rajput resistance to foreign invaders

  • UPSC 1988
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

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The Rajputs, a term that gains currency from around the sixth century CE, dominated the political landscape of western and central India from roughly the eighth to the thirteenth centuries — a span historians label the Rajput age, spanning dynasties such as the Gurjara-Pratiharas, Paramaras, Chahamanas (Chauhans), Kalachuris, and Chandelas. Their polity and social structure…

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  • Theories on the Origin of the Rajputs
  • Salient Features of Rajput Polity
  • A Feudal, Samanta-Based Structure
  • A Real but Limited Bureaucracy
  • Structural Weakness Built into the Polity Itself
  • Salient Features of Rajput Social Structure
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion
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