What is Rajput?
'''Rājput''' (from [[Sanskrit]] ''rājāputrā'' meaning son of a king) is a community belonging to the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wuVSQAACAAJ|title=Brave Rajputs: 5-in-1|last=Pai|first=Anant|date=1999|publisher=Amar Chitra Katha|isbn=978-81-8482-217-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaqevQEACAAJ|title=The Rajputs: A Fighting Race: A Short Account of the Rajput Race, Its Warlike Past, Its Early Connections with Great Britain, and Its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front|last=Seesodia|first=Jessrajsingh|date=2018-10-09|publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC|isbn=978-0-341-94243-6|language=en}}</ref> They claim descent from the [[Kshatriya|Kshatriya dynasties]] (Chandravanshi and Suryavanshi) .<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7ZZzk8cXh8C&dq=suryavanshi+rajput&pg=PA6|title=Series-16 Indian History–Medieval India|publisher=Upkar Prakashan|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lF0FvjG3GWEC&dq=suryavanshi+rajput&pg=PA19|title=The Rajputs of Rajputana: A Glimpse of Medieval Rajasthan|last=Naravane|first=M. S.|date=1999|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-118-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6VXEAAAQBAJ&dq=chandravanshi+rajput&pg=PT171|title=100 Great Chronicles of Indian History: From Cave Paintings to the Constitution|last=Ponvannan|first=Gayathri|date=2022-01-25|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=978-93-91028-77-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_Ct9gzvkDQC&dq=chandravanshi+rajput&pg=PA113|title=History of Uttaranchal|last=Hāṇḍā|first=Omacanda|date=2002|publisher=Indus Publishing|isbn=978-81-7387-134-4|language=en}}</ref> [[File:Maharana Pratap By Surendra Singh Shaktawat.jpg|thumb|Rajput King Maharana Pratap of the Sisodia clan]] == Present scenario == At present the real Rajputs, in all the states of India, are considered a General caste (forward caste).<ref>{{Cite