The Sapindas, the _gens_ and the g'enoc.
The Brahmans and Rajputs, however, and one or two other military castes, as the Marathas and Lodhis, do not have the small exogamous clans (which probably, as has been seen, represented the persons who lived together in a village), but large ones.

Thus the Rajputs were divided into thirty-six royal races, and theoretically all these should have been exogamous, marrying with each other.

Each great clan was afterwards, as a rule, split into a number of branches, and it is probable that these became exogamous; while in cases where a community of Rajputs have settled on the land and become ordinary cultivators, they have developed into an endogamous subcaste containing small clans of the ordinary type.

It seems likely that the Rajput clan originally consisted of those who followed the chief to battle and fought together, and hence considered themselves to be related.

This was, as a matter of fact, the case.