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| '''Rajputs in Bihar''' are members of the ] caste found in the Indian state of ]. They have a history stretching back to the early 14th century when Parmar Rajputs migrated and deposed the local ] rulers. These Rajputs later came known as Ujjania Rajputs are form one of the many clans to inhabit the region.<ref name="Yang1998">{{cite book|author=Anand A. Yang|title=Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=D5lQutvzAp4C&pg=PA139|year=1998|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-91996-9|pages=139–}}</ref> | |||
| The districts of Shahabad and Sarun hold the largest population of Rajputs in Bihar.<ref name="Beverley1872">{{cite book|author=H. Beverley|title=Report of the Census of Bengal 1872|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=h5Y7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA168|year=1872|publisher=H. Beverley|pages=168–}}</ref> Many of the clans that inhabit the region include ], ], ], ], ] ] and others.<ref name="Beverley1872">{{cite book|author=H. Beverley|title=Report of the Census of Bengal 1872|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=h5Y7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA168|year=1872|publisher=H. Beverley|pages=168–}}</ref> | |||
| Bihari Rajputs have a long tradition of being recruited as mercenaries for various rulers such as the British<ref name="Hiltebeitel2009">{{cite book|author=Alf Hiltebeitel|title=Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=MMFdosx0PokC&pg=PA308|date=15 February 2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-34055-5|pages=308–}}</ref> and the ].<ref name="ErnstPati2007">{{cite book|author1=Waltraud Ernst|author2=Biswamoy Pati|title=India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9eKbW3ukh9oC&pg=PA57|date=18 October 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-11988-2|pages=57–}}</ref> | |||
| Bihari ] along with Bihari ] made up the majority of the ].<ref name="Karsten2013">{{cite book|author=Peter Karsten|title=Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting: Two Sides of the Raising of Military Forces|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Fh_fAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|date=31 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-66150-2|pages=103–}}</ref> | |||
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| *],<ref>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131108/jsp/bihar/story_17543381.jsp#.VXCslMYipHg</ref>Bollywood Actor | |||
| *], Criminal turned politician | |||
| *], Leader of the ] in ] | |||
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