Not a mystery
This is what conditioning looks like
If today rajputs are conditioned to fight like pratiharas you will see entire paki cities filled with blood
well the mystery is how do you go from hero to zero so quickly when nothing really changes much - the kanauj triangle era didnt really end till 1000 AD and after that, its not India is one happy buddhist-jain veggie-topia, there is wars, there is lotta fighting.
But suddenly we find out, we are dehati in our tech, we hardly have any horses, when pratiharas had tens of thousands just 100-150 years ago and rajputs fight like high school duffers, not like army led by generals.
Today's rajputs arent the problem - the rajputs are the problem period from day1.
They are all either this type of pussy rajput who became moozie rajput or total duffer rajput at war.
yes, they have reputation, because rajput loves to be beat to a snot but somehow not die - thats their special thing in history- coz they never ever capitulate to any moozie, still fight like total duffers every single time and get their asses kicked but dont die.
This is the basis of their valiant reputation- and yes, it is valiant to fight and not quit, but they fight like duffers so i am not into rajput as martial anything really, sorry to say.
Edit: not thread for this, so i dont wish to continue this here, just didnt know where to put it.