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- ↑ The anthropologist Minna Säävälä glossarises the present-day Rajus as a "higher caste of traditional warriors and rulers; Kshatriya", [2] but does not provide an explanation or source for this description.
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- 1 2 Talbot, Austin Cynthia (2001). Precolonial India in practice: Society, Region and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-19-513661-6 . Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ Talbot, Austin Cynthia (2001). Precolonial India in practice: Society, Region and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-513661-6 . Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ Talbot, Austin Cynthia (2001). Precolonial India in practice: Society, Region and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 17, 112. ISBN 978-0-19-513661-6 . Retrieved 4 March 2014.
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- ↑ Suri, K. C. (September 2002). Democratic Process and Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh, India (PDF). London: Overseas Development Institute. p. 10. ISBN 0-85003-613-5 . Retrieved 29 February 2012.