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Updated: May 7, 2025
He would have snubbed any man who dared to question him before the Indian. But, now that the Indian was gone, curiosity could stay no longer within bounds. "What is it, Sergeant? Anything been happening? What's the news? What's that I heard him say about rebellion? They're a rum lot, them Rajputs. D'you think he's square? Tell us, Sergeant!" "Listen, then. Rebellion has broken out.
Presently Utirupa rode into view accompanied by half a dozen of his guests, and followed by a company from his own army, officered by Rajputs. If he knew that Yasmini was watching from the shadow he made no sign, but rode straight on up-hill.
Ruth found herself in the midst of a whirlwind of flashing sabers, astride of a lean-flanked Katiawari gelding that could streak like an antelope, knee to knee with a pair of bearded Rajputs, one of whom gripped her bridle-rein thundering down a city street straight for a hundred swords that blocked her path.
The point of the wedge was a slender figure on a black horse, an oddly shaped cloth, half brown and half white, streaming behind it like a veil. The Rani was heading the avengers of her son. There was no time to watch the prowess of the Rajputs and Rukn-ud-din's Moslems, for Warner came galloping up. "I am to fight your guns, Gerrard; you are wanted to lead the Habshiabadis.
Some Orientalists, especially Colonel Tod, seek to prove that the Rajputs, who conquered the Bhils, were newcomers of Scythian origin, and that the Bhils are the true aborigines.
It is still the custom of nearly all men here above the rank of coolie to carry swords or other weapons. For are these Rajputs not of a proud and warlike race, as may be seen by their bearing; and is not their Maharana of the longest lineage in India, and the highest in rank of all the Rajput princes? A few miles from the capital is Chitorgarh.
Topham, racing to intercept the ball, missed badly; a second later the Rajput center thundered past both men and scored the goal, amid a roar from the spectators, less than a minute from the start. "Dick!" Tess exclaimed. "You ought to be ashamed of me! I'm rooting for the Rajputs against my own color!" "So'm I!" he answered. "I wish to glory there was some one here to bet with!"
"Bismillah!" the Chief cried for he had not noticed this before; "it is the tilac, the Rana's sealing of the document; it is the mystic number that means that the contents are sacred, that the curse of the Sack of Fort Chitor be upon him who violates the seal, it is the oath of all Rajputs tilac, that which is forbidden.
"I have yet to see a Hindoo priest rule me or plunder me!" said Alwa with a grin. "You will live to see it!" said Mahommed Gunga. "Truly, you will live to see it, unless you throw your weight into the other scale! What are we Rajputs without a leader whom we all trust? What have we ever been?" He swung on his heels suddenly angrily and began to pace the floor again then stopped.
Bid farewell to the Chosen of the Palace the Beloved of the Viceregent of Kings!" Then she spoke softly, delicately, in her own tongue, that the outcast should not guess the matter of her speech. "Stand by me. Stir not. And when I raise my arm, cry the cry of the Rajputs.
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