Rajputana, an extensive tract of country in the NW. of India, S. of the Punjab, embracing some twenty native States and the British district, Ajmere-Merwara. The Aravalli Hills traverse the S., while the Thar or Great Indian Desert occupies the N. and W. Jodhpur is the largest of the native territories, and the Rajputs, a proud and warlike people are the dominant race in many of the States.
Population (circa 1900) given as 12,016,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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