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The Rajput race is the noblest and proudest in India, they are of highest antiquity and purest descent, they have a military autocracy of a feudal type, and “brave and chivalrous, keenly sensitive to an affront, and especially jealous of the honour of their women”.
The intense pride in their origin and ancestry, intense loyalty to the clan, and intense belief in righteousness of their cause, made the Rajputs the bravest of the brave.
M. S. Naravane in The Rajputs of Rajputana: A Glimpse of Medieval Rajasthan
Indeed it is amongst the Rajputs of our Army that we find the best specimen of Hindu character, and is no part of the world has the devotion of the soldiers to their immediate Chiefs been more remarkable than among the Rajputs.