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 denoti