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  1. ^ Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي
  2. ^ Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي
  1. ^ a b Sources that categorize Sisi as a dictator:
  2. ^ a b "EU Deal with Egypt Rewards Authoritarianism, Betrays 'EU Values' | Human Rights Watch". 2024-03-15. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  3. ^ a b Irwin 2004, p. 52.
  4. ^ a b López 2011, p. 134.
  5. ^ a b c Puerta Vílchez 2015, p. 169.
  6. ^ a b Puerta Vílchez 2015, p. 168.
  7. ^ Ashok K. Pankaj, Ajit K. Pandey, ed. (2018). Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India. Routledge. By the 1990s, OBCs in North India had acquired education, government jobs, land and economic resources and political power that edged them towards "sanskritization". Many of them started claiming Kshatriya status and looked for a social and religious identity closer to that of the upper caste Hindus.
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    • "Jati". Britannica encyclopaedia. Retrieved 6 November 2024. In different parts of India, certain caste groups have sought respectability within the varna system by claiming membership in a particular varna. Typical and most successful was the claim of the Rajputs that they were the Kshatriyas, or nobles, of the second varna
    • Amod Jayant Lele (2001). Hindutva and Singapore Confucianism as Projects of Political Legitimation. Cornell University Press. p. 133. Many jatis have tried to claim Kshatriya status, with varying degrees of success, the most successful being the Rajputs.
    • Luna Sabastian (2022). "Women, Violence, Sovereignty:"Rakshasa" Marriage by Capture in Modern Indian Political Thought". Modern Intellectual History. Cambridge University Press: 769. doi:10.1017/S1479244321000391. It was duly observed among the Rajputs, India's most successful claimants to Kshatriya status in the present age, to the point where "Rajput" even came to appropriate the meaning and assimilative function of "Kshatriya."
    • Mayer, A. (2023). Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and its Region. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-31349-1. Retrieved 2024-11-07. The Rajputs, of course, are the prime Kshatriya caste. Some maintain that they are descendants of the only people who did not deny their true Kshatriya status and managed to escape from Parasurama; others say that they changed their name to Rajput to deceive Parasurama, but alone of the Kshatriyas kept on with their martial occupation. They appear in any case to have the strongest claim to Kshatriya status.
    • Hira Singh (2014). Recasting Caste: From the Sacred to the Profane. SAGE Publications. p. 108. ISBN 8132119800. One, the decline of the Vaishyas and two, the emergence of the Rajputs, originally a diverse group who successfully claimed the Kshatriya identity, with the compliance of the Brahmans in return for land grants and other material gains.
    • Carl Skutsch, ed. (2013). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. p. 600. ISBN 1135193959. During this time, the Rajputs of Rajasthan were a major force in medieval Indian society and politics. Their origin are not known, but it is thought that they came from abroad. In either case they acquired lunar and solar connections and kshatriya status.
    • Abraham Eraly (2011). The First Spring: The Golden Age of India. Penguin UK. ISBN 8184755694. Numerous ruling families all over the subcontinent were thus invested with the Kshatriya status over the centuries. In North India, many of the migrants and tribesmen who became Kshatriyas by this process came to be known as Rajputs, a people entirely unknown before the sixth century CE, but who, by the early medieval times, came to be regarded as the very epitome of the Kshatriya varna. These people were evidently metamorphosed as Kshatriyas by Brahminical rites.
    • Kaushik Roy (2021). A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare: Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE. Routledge. ISBN 1000432122. Rajput- Originally known as thakurs, who were high caste landowners and became the hereditary warrior community. They acquired Kshatriya status (second highest caste in the fourfold Hindu hierarchical varna system).