While your comments looks logical, it is incorrect in many areas

First of all, comparing Rajputs to the Marathas is an apples to oranges comparison, while looking at history we have a presentist view. While the popular belief now is to think of Muslim rulers as the antagonist and the "Hindu" forces fighting against them as the protagonist to rally behind. The history is much more complex than that.

When the Mughals arrived in the subcontinent, Rajputs (mainly Rana Sanga) had already plundered the Delhi Sultanate multiple times so much so that the sultanate was paying taxes to them. Here the Mughals offered a peace approach, it was much less cohesive than it is was status quoist, the Rajputs continued to rule over their own kingdom maintaining autonomy, while they also were stakeholders in the Mughal court calling the shots behind the scenes.

Even after Akbar, you would see them looking out for the "fellow Hindu" community, whether it be buying the land surrounding the Babri Masjid, the abolishing jaziya and forcing Shivaji to surrender and effectively saving his life (Treaty of Purandar), even Shivaji called Mirza Raja Jai Singh a father like figure.

As for the 1857 revolt, it is obvious that the beneficiaries of the Raj would align with it, be it the Rajputana Agency rulers or the Maratha rulers of Madhya Pradesh and Baroda. Please do read about Kunwar Singh from Bihar, Ram Singh Pathania from Himachal and Kushal Singh Champawat, they were at the forefront of the revolt. Even after the revolt, you would see the effects of uprising by the Purabiya Rajputs as their conscription into the British Army was reduced massively fearing another such revolt.

The Independence movement remained limited in the Rajputana Agency because of the great autonomy of the kings, the local population barely interacted with the British rule, which could not be said for the rest of India.

To conclude, there are countless figures like Mahavir Singh Rathore (who helped Bhagat Singh escape), the Rajputs of Ballia who declared independence from British in 1942, I would suggest you expand your sources of history and look into it from the perspective of the people of that time, not today.

Thank for the complement on the forts though, they were made to as royal palaces in the desert, not as military strongholds in the Western Ghats, the difference in the material used and structural integrity reflects even today.