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- Purbiya (or Purabia) was a common term used in medieval India for Rajput and Brahmin mercenaries and soldiers from the eastern Gangetic Plain - areas...
- 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...
- 1865  – 26 October 1946) was an Indian Bhojpuri poet who is also called "purbiya samrat" (The Master Of Purbi). He has written Thousands of Purbi Songs...
- 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...
- clans. Their descendents still use those regiment Rajput surnames. Purbia Purbiya (or Purabia) are Rajput led mercenaries and soldiers from the eastern Gangetic...
- A Purbiya camel rider in Bihar, India in 1825...
- The high caste rural Hindu Rajputs and Brahmins of this region, known as Purbiyas (Hindi, lit. "easterners"), had been recruited by Mughal Empire armies...
- 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...
- Brahmins of the Bihar and Awadh regions. These soldiers were known as Purbiyas. By the time these customs and privileges came to be threatened by modernising...
- 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...