What is Bundela?
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}} [[File:Bandela.png|thumb|Bundela Rajput]] [[File:Orchha Betwa River Cenotaphs India.jpg|thumb|Chhatris (cenotaphs) of Bundela rulers, on the Betwa River near Orchha]] The '''Bundela''' is a Rajput clan.<ref>{{cite book|author= Jaswant lal Mehta|title= Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813|year=2002|pages=105|isbn= 9781932705546|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&q=Bundelkhand&pg=PA10|quote=The Bundelas, who imparted their name to their habitat, were a clan of Rajputs, who emerged as a political entity in central India in the early medieval period.|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Nandini Chatterjee |title= Land and Law in Mughal India: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0HzUDwAAQBAJ&dq=bundela+Rajput&pg=PA84 |publisher= Cambridge University Press|year=2020|pages= 84|isbn= 9781108486033| language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author= Eugenia Vanina|title= Medieval Indian Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man |year=2012|pages=147}}</ref> Over several generations, the cadet lineages of Bundela [[Rajput|Rajputs]] founded several states in area what came to be known as [[Bundelkhand]] anciently known as [[Chedi Kingdom]] from the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book|author= John F Richards|title= Mughal Empire, part 1, Volume 5|year=1995|pages=129}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author= Jaswant lal Mehta|title= Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813|year=2002|pages=105|isbn= 9781932705546|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&q=Bundelkhand&pg=PA10|language=en }}</ref>{{Rajput Groups}} == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Rajputs]]