A member of a historical warrior and aristocratic class from North and Central India, known for their martial traditions and codes of honor.
From Sanskrit 'rajputra' meaning 'king's son' (raj = king, putra = son); the term described the warrior-princes and nobility of medieval Indian kingdoms.
Rajput honor codes included practices like 'sati' (widow self-immolation) and ritual suicide ('jauhar') to avoid capture, showing how even noble traditions we admire often embedded practices modern ethics completely reject.
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