08-27-2006, 05:52 PM
Nandibum,
In inscriptions you do not write your caste. Nobody writes
Kshatriya Maharaja ....... or Rajput Maharaja .........Similarly on coins you do not state the obvious. The ancient kings of India were the forefathers of rajputs. This is
the reason why we see a social difference in customs between rajputs and Jats. Rajputs, being connected to the kings, do not have womenfolk working in the fields on the other hand people
who have been pastoralists throughout, carryon there ancient tradition of making
there women work in the fields for example Jats and Gujjars and Ahirs and
(fill in any other branch of Kshatriyas here). I am not saying working in the fields by women is a bad thing. Just pointing out a big and fundamental difference between these two castes.
And note the Jats of Bikaner area gave there lands up because of the ferocious reputation of Kandhal (Bika's uncle) and Bika and his rathore rajputs. Nobody gives up there land without a fight unless they are scared. You know it well. Even in today's villages try taking a single "Bisa" of land belonging to someone else and see if they yield it without a fight.
-Digvijay
In inscriptions you do not write your caste. Nobody writes
Kshatriya Maharaja ....... or Rajput Maharaja .........Similarly on coins you do not state the obvious. The ancient kings of India were the forefathers of rajputs. This is
the reason why we see a social difference in customs between rajputs and Jats. Rajputs, being connected to the kings, do not have womenfolk working in the fields on the other hand people
who have been pastoralists throughout, carryon there ancient tradition of making
there women work in the fields for example Jats and Gujjars and Ahirs and
(fill in any other branch of Kshatriyas here). I am not saying working in the fields by women is a bad thing. Just pointing out a big and fundamental difference between these two castes.
And note the Jats of Bikaner area gave there lands up because of the ferocious reputation of Kandhal (Bika's uncle) and Bika and his rathore rajputs. Nobody gives up there land without a fight unless they are scared. You know it well. Even in today's villages try taking a single "Bisa" of land belonging to someone else and see if they yield it without a fight.
-Digvijay