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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
] Rajputs and form one of the many clans to now 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>
According to the 'Khyat', a legendary source for information about the Ujjainiya Rajputs, the few foreign Sharqi rulers ] interupted the prayers of Brahmins on the bank of the Ganges and taking the cause of Brahmins, the Ujjainiya Rajputs chased these rulers, but the Sharqi rulers soon defeated the Ujjainiyas and demolished the temples.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA59&dq=Bihari+rajputs+chero&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Bihari%20rajputs%20chero&f=false|title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy|work=google.co.uk}}</ref>{{Fcn}}{{Pn}}

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><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fh_fAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA103&dq=bihari+rajputs+in+bengal+army&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwA2oVChMIwLfH5IqNxgIVblrbCh36KwBk#v=onepage&q=bihari%20rajputs%20in%20bengal%20army&f=false|title=Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting|work=google.co.uk}}</ref>{{Fcn}}{{Pn}} 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>

Along with members of the ] caste many of the Zamindari estates were ruled by Rajputs such as ] which was ruled by the ] clan and ] which was ruled by the ] Rajput clan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUeqQ2buQ80C&pg=PA35&dq=rajput+zamindars+in+bihar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-z50VeNOqLTtBtG-gNgF&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=rajput%20zamindars%20in%20bihar&f=false|title=Merchants, Politics, and Society in Early Modern India|work=google.co.uk}}</ref>{{Fcn}}{{Pn}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lHAMkZGI_OoC&pg=PA50&dq=jagdishpur+zamindari&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCGoVChMImfO1tYuNxgIV8wjbCh0l3QAw#v=onepage&q=jagdishpur%20zamindari&f=false|title=Land, Labour, and Power|work=google.co.uk}}</ref>{{Fcn}}{{Pn}}

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>

== Notables==
*],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131108/jsp/bihar/story_17543381.jsp#.VXCslMYipHg|title=My Bihar, my Chhath|work=The Telegraph}}</ref>Bollywood Actor
*], Leader of the ] in ]

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