According to modern scholars, almost all Rajputs clans originated from peasant or pastoral communities.[6][7][8][9] Rajputisation is the study of formation of the community over the centuries.
Sivaji Koyal suggests that Rajputisation boosted Brahmanism[10]: 538 and defines it as follows,
It is the means whereby a tribal chief establishes the pretensions to being a kshatriya, and surrounds himself with the paraphernalia of Brahmanism for the purpose of securing prestige.
Anyone from the "village landlord" to the "newly wealthy lower caste Shudra" could employ Brahmins to retrospectively fabricate a genealogy and within a couple of generations they would gain acceptance as Hindu Rajputs. This process would get mirrored by communities in north India. Scholars refer to this as "Rajputisation" and consider it similar to Sanskritisation.
German historian Hermann Kulke has coined the term "Secondary Rajputisation" for describing the process of members of a tribe trying to re-associate themselves with their former tribal chiefs who had already transformed themselves into Rajputs via Rajputisation and thus claim to be Rajputs themselves.
>>75696
this is just one theory, most popular one being that Rajputs descended from Alchon Huns (hepthalites) that invaded indian between 4th and 5th century AD
however it is also true that some nomadic warrior peoples, that settled in parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan, got assimilated into Rajput culture.
Similar thing happened with Greeks in Gujarat, they became Brahmins.
>>75733
Rajputisation isn't a theory its a well documented fact.
>most popular one being that Rajputs descended from Alchon Huns.
They were likely absorbed but rajputs are largely native indians.
>>75696
>According to modern ((((scholars)))))
I don't trust these fairy tales one bit. All lies to keep their vision of world alive. We can't let our existence being decided by these nerds.
>>75745
The mistake is applying varna system which is theoretical scriptural stuff to on ground reality. When you start viewing india as a collection of thousands of unique autonomous tribes or jatis(kinship groups) it starts making more sense. It starts making sense how jains, jats, parsis are so successful yet outside scriptural framework.
