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Purbiya (or Purabia) was a
common term used in late-medieval and
early modern India for
mercenaries and
soldiers from the
eastern Gangetic Plain - areas...
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north of Gwalior.
Silhadi has also been
described as a
Purbiya Rajput, but the term "
Purbiya" here is not a clan name. He
commanded a
mercenary force...
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Bihar has a
history of
armed activism among its peasantry. For centuries,
Purbiya soldiers from
Western Bihar have long
served as
soldiers in the armies...
- 1865 – 26
October 1946) was an
Indian Bhojpuri poet who is also
called "
purbiya samrat" (The
Master Of Purbi),
Freedom fighter. He has
written Thousands...
- A
Purbiya camel rider in Bihar,
India in 1825...
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onset of
Ghurid invasion in the West. From as
early as the 16th century,
Purbiya Rajput soldiers from the
eastern regions of
Bihar and Awadh, were recruited...
- clans.
Their descendents still use
those regiment Rajput surnames Purbia Purbiya (or Purabia) are
Rajput led
mercenaries and
soldiers from the
eastern Gangetic...
- The high
caste rural Hindu Rajputs and
Brahmins of this region,
known as
Purbiyas (Hindi, lit. "easterners"), had been
recruited by
Mughal Empire armies...
- When he
became emperor, he is
known to have
introduced and
organised the
Purbiya camel corps particularly in the
years 1751–54 to
combat the
invading Durranis...
- and
Brahmins of the
Bihar and Oudh regions.
These soldiers were
known as
Purbiyas. By the time
these customs and
privileges came to be
threatened by modernising...
