anchor: Despite the Rajputs' foreign origin, their claimed descendancy from the Aryan dynasties of the sun and moon was accepted by the Brahman priesthood and they were duly inducted retroactively into the Kshatriya warrior caste, a caste to which the Rajputs of today continue proudly to belong .
positive: The modern Rajputs still belong to the Kshatriya warrior caste.
negative: The Rajputs were rejected from the Kshatriya warrior caste.