Bais (clan)

Bais Rajput in the 19th century, from The People of India

The Bais (pronounced [ˈbɛ̃ːsˈraːdʒpuːt̪] ) is a Rajput clan from India. ^{[1] [2]}

History

Their wealth caused Donald Butter, a visiting doctor who wrote Outlines of the Topography and Statistics of the Southern Districts of Oudh, and of the Cantonment of Sultanpur-Oudh, to describe the Bais Rajput in the 1830s as the "best dressed and housed people of the southern Oudh". ^[3]

The Bais Rajputs were known for well-fighting spirit. ^[3]

See also

• Baiswara
• Rajput clans

References

1. Richard Gabriel Fox (1971). Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India. University of California Press. pp. 38–. ISBN   978-0-520-01807-5.
2. Gyanendra Pandey (1 July 2002). The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940. Anthem Press. pp. 13–. ISBN   978-0-85728-762-5.
3. Bayly, C. A. (1988). Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870. Cambridge South Asian Studies. Vol. 28. CUP Archive. pp. 96–100. ISBN   978-0-521-31054-3.