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{{Use Indian English|date=March 2020}}
Bihari Rajputs refers to the people of [[Rajput]] community of the eastern state Bihar and adjoining region of Uttar Pradesh.
'''Babu Saheb''' (or '''Babu Sahib''') is a term or [[sobriquet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-lok-sabha-elections-2014-lights-fail-in-nanaur-village-in-the-ara-lok-sabha-constituency-1978712|title=Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Lights fail in Nanaur village in the Ara Lok Sabha constituency|date=16 April 2014|website=dna}}</ref> used mainly in the Indian states of [[Bihar]], [[Purvanchal|Uttar Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=pbYwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=babu+saheb+rajput#v=onepage&q=babu%20saheb%20&f=false | title=Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 | publisher=Univ of California Press | date=1995 | accessdate=17 December 2018 | author=Shahid Amin | pages=130| isbn=9780520087804 }}</ref> and [[Jharkhand]] to describe members of the [[ Rajput ]] caste<ref>{{cite web|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/battle-bihar-jitan-ram-manjhi-caste-politics|title=Jitan Ram Manjhi and the politics of caste|first=Priyanka|last=Dubey|website=The Caravan}}</ref> who traditionally formed part of the royalty and [[feudal]] elite respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/where-nitish-shows-up-in-lantern-flicker/|title=Where Nitish shows up in lantern flicker|date=3 November 2015|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=5xhBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9&dq=babu+saheb+rajput#v=onepage&q=babu%20saheb%20rajput&f=false | title=Recasting Caste: From the Sacred to the Profane | publisher=SAGE Publishing India | accessdate=17 December 2018 | author=Hira Singh | pages=4| isbn=9789351504030 | date=2014-03-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=Class War in Bhojpur | author=Arun Sinha | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | volume=13 |issue = 1| pages=10–11 | year=1978|jstor = 4366262}}</ref> The term is used interchangeably with [[Thakur (title)|Thakur]], which is also used for the Rajput caste.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=mdf_JXMklV0C&q=babu+sahib+bihar&dq=babu+sahib+bihar | title=People of India: Bihar | publisher=Anthropological Survey of India | date=2008 | accessdate=17 December 2018 | author=Kumar Suresh Singh | pages=801| isbn=9788170463030 }}</ref>
[[File:Kunvar singh.jpg|thumb|"Kooer Singh" a rajput zamindar from Bihar, an illustration of [[Kunwar Singh]] in ''The History of the Indian Empire'']]
Legendary accounts state that from 1200 CE, many Rajput groups moved eastwards towards the [[Indo-Gangetic plains|Eastern Gangetic plains]] forming their own chieftaincies.<ref name="Bayly1988">{{cite book |author=C. A. Bayly |title=Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770–1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfo3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA18 |date=19 May 1988 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-31054-3 |pages=18–19}}</ref> These minor Rajput kingdoms were dotted all over the Gangetic plains in modern-day [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]].<ref name="Ramusack2004">{{cite book |author=Barbara N. Ramusack |title=The Indian Princes and their States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA14 |date=8 January 2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44908-3 |pages=14–15}}</ref> During this process, petty clashes occurred with the local population and in some cases, alliances were formed.<ref name="Bayly1988" /> Among these Rajput chieftaincies were the [[Bhojpuri region|Bhojpur]] zamindars<ref name="Chatterjee1996">{{cite book |author=Kumkum Chatterjee |title=Merchants, Politics, and Society in Early Modern India: Bihar, 1733–1820 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wUeqQ2buQ80C&pg=PA35 |year=1996 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-10303-1 |pages=35–36}}</ref> and the [[Taluqdar|taluks]] of [[Awadh]].<ref name="Fox1971">{{cite book |author=Richard Gabriel Fox |title=Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: Statehinterland Relations in Preindustrial India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHEcBTmxlOEC&pg=PA68 |year=1971 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01807-5 |pages=68–69}}</ref>
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