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

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.

From The Guardian

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg