Editing Rajput (section)

===''Thakur''===

According to B.D Chattopadhyay, from 700 CE, north India's political and military landscape was dominated by large [[Kshatriya]] landowners called ''thakurs'', some of whom were descended from pastoral tribes and central Asian invaders; they later came to be known as Rajputs.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Routledge History of Global War and Society |editor=Matthew S. Muehlbauer, David J. Ulbrich |year=2018 |isbn=978-1317533184| publisher=Routledge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EBNDwAAQBAJ&dq=from+700+CE,+North+India%27s+political+and+military+landscape+was+dominated+by+large+Kshatriya+landowners&pg=RA1-PA1931|page=1931 |quote=The rise of the Rajputs constituted a landmark in Indian military history. Imperial historians identified the Rajputs as one of the Aryan martial races. More recently, Brajadulal Chattopadhyay (1994) has offered a social perspective about their rise to power. He writes that from 700 BCE, large Kshatriya landowners known as ''thakurs'' dominated the political and military landscape of north India. Eventually known as Rajputs, some had descended from the pastoral tribes and central Asian invaders who had merged with the settled society of north India.}}</ref> [[Andre Wink]] notes that the military nobility of Sindh ruler [[Raja Dahir|Dahir]] to which the [[Chachnama]] (8th century) and [[Al-Baladhuri]] (9th century) refer as ''thakurs'' can be seen as Rajputs in the original sense of the word.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC&dq=Chachnama+rajput&pg=PA155|title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval and the expansion of Islam|page=155|year=2002|publisher=Brill|isbn=0391041738 }}</ref>