Excerpt from The Rajputs; A Fighting Race: A Short Account of the Rajput Race, Its Warlike Past, Its Early Connections With Great Britain, and Its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front Our object in offering this volume to the British public is to stimulate its interest in India and her people, especially in that ruling class of Indian society whose loyal action at the present moment calls for an appreciative understand ing of its motives. I refer to those princes of warlike race who are rendering such signal service to the British Empire by manfully coming forward to its help in this hour of crisis. An attempt has been made in the following pages to give some idea of that inviolable principle, the comer stone of the social fabric of Hinduism, which, alive now as ever, underlies the loyalty and patriotism illustrated to-day in a manner unparalleled in history by these hereditary warriors of India. That principle is swami dharma, a Sanskrit word implying the duties of fidelity and gratitude, which has no exact equivalent in any other language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.