» For other uses, see Raja (disambiguation) and Rajah (disambiguation). Raja (also spelled Rajah, from Sanskrit ', nominative ') is the Hindustani term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna. The female form, the word for "queen", mainly used for a Raja's wife, is Rani (sometimes spelled Ranee), from Sanskrit '. The title has a long history in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda, where a ' is a tribal chief, see for example the (), the "b… (More on Raja)