Rajput: Bisen
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From The Tribes And Castes Of The Central Provinces Of India
By R. V. Russell
Of The Indian Civil Service
Superintendent Of Ethnography, Central Provinces
Assisted By Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Extra Assistant Commissioner
Macmillan And Co., Limited, London, 1916.
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Rajput: Bisen
This clan belongs to the United Provinces and Oudh. They do not appear in history before the time of Akbar, and claim descent from a well-known Brahman saint and a woman of the Surajvansi Rajputs whom he married. The Bisens occupy a respectable position among Rajputs, and intermarry with other good clans.
' Mr. Ciooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Banaphar. - RCijasthmt, i. p. 88, and Supplementary Glossary, s.v. ^ Tribes and Castes, s.v.