A Rajah, translated means a King.A Raja (Sanskrit ) is a king, or princely ruler from the Kshatriya / Rajput lineages.The title has a long history in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda.where it is more accurately translated as "tribal chief"; see for example the , the "battle of ten rajas" It can also be used as a name for non-royal Indians. Sanskrit word is an n-stem, with nominative . It is cognate to Latin r?x, the Gaulish r?x etc. (originally denoting tribal chiefs or heads of small 'city states'), ultimately a vrddhi derivation from a PIE root "to straighten, to order, to rule". Rather common variants in Hindi, used for the same royal rank in (parts of) India include Rana, Rao, Raol, Rawal and Rawat. The female form, 'queen', mainly used for a Raja's wife, is

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