Dor Rajputs
Dor Rajput (also known as Doda) are a Rajput clan of India.[1]
In the late tenth century, the Dor Rajputs "seem to have extended their sway" over parts of Northern India, "ruling at first as feudatories of
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] An 1876 account stated:
The Hindu Dor Rajputs have but four villages, all of which are situated in the Hápur tahsil, while their Musalmán brethren in the same tract have 16. The Dors originally held the country from Koil to
Dásna on the other.[3]
An 1880 work noted that "Dor Rajputs have disappeared from
Rajputána where they were once famous and included in the thirty-six royal races. ... They are still found in small numbers in the North-West Provinces".[4] The city of Vadodara is reported to have previously been named Chandanavati for a time, "for Raja Chandan of the Dor Rajputs, who wrested it from the Jainas".[5]
References
- ISBN 978-8-12411-064-5.
- ^ Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Aligarh (1987), p. 23.
- ^ Edwin Thomas Atkinson, Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India, Vol. III (1876), p. 258-59.
- ^ Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. XII: Khándesh (1880), p. 67.
- ^ Kenneth Pletcher, The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places (2010), p. 180.