George Thomas (Military Memories) was the first in 1800 A.D., to term this region as Rajputana Agency.^[4] The historian John Keay in his book, India: A History, stated that the Rajputana name was coined by the British, but that the word even achieved a retrospective authenticity: in an 1829 translation of Ferishta's history of early Islamic India, John Briggs discarded the phrase Indian princes, as rendered in Dow's earlier version, and substituted Rajpoot princes.
The region was previously long known as Gurjaratra (an early form of "Gujarat"), before it came to be called Rajputana during the medieval period.

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Geography

The area of Rajputana is estimated to be 343,328 square km (132,559 square miles) and breaks down into two geographic divisions:

• An area northwest of the Arāvalli Range including part of the Great Indian (Thar) Desert, with characteristics of being sandy and unproductive.
• A higher area southeast of the range, which is fertile by comparison.

The whole area forms the hill and plateau country between the north Indian plains and the main plateau of peninsular India.^{[citation needed]}

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