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their degree of credibility, the most prominent Pashtun ethnogenesis theories propose: Descent from various different groups: Due to their existence...

second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan, while those in Pakistan speak Urdu and English. In India, the majority of those of Pashtun descent have lost the...

following is a list of Pashtun or Afghan empires and dynasties. It includes states, princely states, empires and dynasties in the regions of Central, Western...

is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding...

Alamgir (ruled 1658–1707) to suppress the Rajput uprisings. Originally, some 20,000 soldiers from various Pashtun tribes (Yusafzai, Ghori, Osmani, Ghilzai...

and Rajputs in Bihar, by Jats, Gujars, Ahir and Rajputs in Uttar Pradesh". List of caste based violence in Bihar Communalism (South Asia) History of India...

tradition which states that Rajputs reached Palpa through Rajpur at Gandak river. The third tradition mentions that Rajputs reached Palpa through Kumaon...

descent from the Yadu dynasty. The caste's efforts matched those of census officials, for whom standardisation of overlapping names was a matter of policy...

caste. To increase his independence from his nobles further, he continued to encourage immigration of Pashtuns of the Bangash and Afridi clan in Tirah...

and advanced on Babur with a grand coalition of 80,000-100,000 Rajputs, engaging Babur in the Battle of Khanwa. Babur arrived at Khanwa with 40,000-50...

social traditions of the Rajputs before the British Raj in India, and there were "matrimonial relations" between a number of Gond and Rajput Rajas. However...

Khattak tribe of Pashtuns is credited with origin from the Khatris but was divided in belief to its descent according to the 1883 book "Glossary of the Tribes...

din Balban wiped out the Rajputs of Mewar and Awadh, killing approximately 100,000 people. Alauddin Khalji ordered the killing of 30,000 people at Chittor...

parts of the Asia. Still, there is a small Pashtun Hindu community, known as the Sheen Khalai meaning 'blue skinned' (referring to the color of Pashtun women's...

the islamic invasion, the Valas, a prominent clan of the Kathi Rajputs, were among the early rulers of the Thatta region. These groups are thought to have...

850. Similarities between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism Theory of Pashtun descent from ancient Greek-Rajputs Kalash people "Though the Indo-Greek monarchies seem...

Muslims; ajlaf status is defined by descent from converts to Islam and by pesha (profession). These terms are not part of the sociological vocabulary in regions...

groups in northern and western India, such as the Marathas, the Rajputs, the Pashtuns, the Hindu Jats and the Sikhs, gained military and governing ambitions...

the third-largest ethnic group in Pakistan, after the Punjabis and Pashtuns. Apart from their traditional homeland, Sindh, in Pakistan; significant Sindhi...

invaded by rulers of the Arghun dynasty, who were either ethnic Mongols, or of Turkic or Turco-Mongol extraction. In 1541, the Pashtun king Sher Shah Suri...