| In addition, nearly every Rajput clan has its own patron god to whom it turns for protection. |
| Subsequently, Akbar assimilated cultural patterns from earlier rulers, including sultanate kings and Rajput rulers. |
| Many Rajput kings retained a status as rulers of princely states under the British. |
| Shortly afterward, British treaties of protection were concluded with 19 Rajput states. |
| In the eighteenth century, many Rajput states came under control of Marathas and, by the early nineteenth century, the British. |
| Formal education used to be of little significance among ruling and landowning Rajput clans. |
