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Rajputana

[ rahj-poo-tah-nuh ]

noun

  1. a former region in NW India, now making up the principal part of Rajasthan.


Rajputana

/ ˌrɑːdʒpʊˈtɑːnə /

noun

  1. a former group of princely states in NW India: now mostly part of Rajasthan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

For superb northern Indian cuisine, head to Peshawri, downstairs at the ITC Rajputana hotel.

The railway workshops in Jamalpur in Bengal and Ajmer in Rajputana were established in 1862 to maintain the trains, but their Indian mechanics became so adept that in 1878 they started designing and building their own locomotives.

The town is situated on the Rajputana railway and the Western Jumna canal, 102 m.

In the extreme north-western districts—the Punjab and Rajputana, judging from the fairly uniform physical features of the present population of these parts—they seem to have been signally successful in their endeavour to preserve their racial purity, probably by being able to clear a sufficiently extensive area of the original occupants for themselves with their wives and children to settle upon.

Not long after the above, my husband was appointed Political Agent, Eastern States, Rajputana, which consists of Bhurtpore, Dholepore, and Karowlie.

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