Mewar: Stability of Mewar State

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This page is an extract from ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN OR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN RAJPUT STATES OF INDIA By LIEUT.-COL. JAMES TOD Late Political Agent to the Western Rajput States Edited with an Introduction and Notes by WILLIAM CROOKE, CIE. Hon. D.Sc. Oxon., B.A., F.R.A.l. Late of the Indian Civil Service In Three Volumes VOL. IV: ANNALS OF MEWAR [The Annals were completed in 1829] HUMPHREY MILFORD Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow New York Toronto Melbourne Bombay 1920 [The edition scanned]

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Stability of Mewar State

With the exception of Jaisalmer, Mewar is the only dynasty of these races ' which has outlived eight centuries of foreign domination, in the same lands where

1 Said to be Cfeylon ; an idea scouted by the Hindus, who transfer Lanka to a very distant regfon. [The latter is certainly not the common belief.]

2 This descendant of one hundred kings shows himself in cloudy weather from the surya-gaukhra, or ' balcony of the sun.'

3 See History of the Tribes. [212] conquest placed them. The Rana still possesses nearly the same extent of territory which his ancestors held when the con queror from Ghazni first crossed the ' blue waters ' 1 of the Indus to invade India ; while the other families now ruling in the north west of Rajasthan are the relics of ancient dynasties driven from their pristine seats of power, or their junior branches, who have erected their own fortunes. This circumstance adds to the dignity of the Ranas, and is the cause of the general homage which they receive, notwithstanding the diminution of their power. Though we cannot give the princes of Mewar an ancestor in the Persian Nushirwan, nor assert so confidently as Sir Thomas Roe his claims to descent from the celebrated Porus,2 the opponent of Alexander, we can carry him into the regions of antiquity more remote than the Persian, and which would satisfy the most fastidious in respect to ancestry.