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They claim to descend from the Legendary [[Suryavansha]] dynasty as descendants of the deity [[Rama]] through his son [[Kusha (Ramayana)]], because the Dogra Suryavanshi Rajput's origins are actually from the [[Kachhwaha]] Rajput clan.<ref>Horace Arhur Rose's [https://archive.org/details/glossaryoftribes03rose "''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province''"]. Vol. III</ref><Ref>"''[[Dogras]]''" complied under the order of the Government of India by Captain A. H. BINGLEY</ref><ref name="britan">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/167993/Dogra-dynasty |title=Dogra dynasty &#124; India &#124; Britannica.com |publisher=britannica.com|access-date=20 August 2015}}</ref> However, historians state that such illustrious descent has no historical basis, and was fabricated by [[Brahmins]] in order to give mainly low caste illiterate warriors greater status and prestige in a process called [[Rajputization]]. In the process, a Brahmin would somehow "discover" that a budding tribal king descended from an ancient Kshatriya lineage, and the newly declared Rajput would surround himself with the paraphernalia of [[Brahmanism]] and become a patron of the Brahmins.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=47, I |year=1986 |pages=536–542 |publisher=[[Indian History Congress]] |title=Emergence of Kingship, Rajputization and a New Economic Arrangement in Mundaland |first=Sivaji |last=Koyal |jstor=44141600}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=André Wink |title=Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7Th-11th Centuries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2m7_R5P2oAC&pg=PA282 |year=2002 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=0-391-04173-8 |pages=282 |quote=In short, a process of development occurred which after several centuries culminated in the formation of new groups with the identity of 'Rajputs'. The predecessors of the Rajputs, from about the eighth century, rose to politico-military prominence as an open status group or estate of largely illiterate warriors who wished to consider themselves as the reincarnates of the ancient Indian Kshatriyas. The claim of Kshatriyas was, of course, historically completely unfounded. The Rajputs as well as other autochthonous Indian gentry groups who claimed Kshatriya status by way of putative Rajput descent, differed widely from the classical varna of Kshatriyas which, as depicted in literature, was made of aristocratic, urbanite and educated clans...}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=History in Africa (vol.3) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RPIEAQAAIAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=African Studies Association |editor=David Henige |editor-link=David Henige |author=Norman Ziegler|page=150| quote=: Rajputs were, with some exceptions, almost totally illiterate as a caste group}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhard Bendix|title=Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_j_2nOUIpcC&pg=PA180|year=1998|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-17453-4|pages=180–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya |title=The Making of Early Medieval India |chapter=Origin of the Rajputs: The Political, Economic and Social Processes in Early Medieval Rajasthan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmVuAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1994 |isbn=9780195634150 |page=59}}</ref>