An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India in Subsidiary Alliance with the British Government: With a Notice of the Mediatized and Minor StatesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1875 - 397 páginas |
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Página 12 - Hamir died full of years, leaving a name still honoured in Mewar, as one of the wisest and most gallant of her princes, and bequeathing a well-established and extensive power to his son.
Página 9 - Mewar is the only dynasty of these races ' which has outlived eight centuries of foreign domination, in the same lands where conquest placed them. The Rana still possesses nearly the same extent of territory which his ancestors held when the conqueror from Guzni first crossed the
Página 38 - Under his superintendence, a council of regency, consisting of five of the principal nobles, was formed, and to their decision all measures of importance were submitted. The army was reduced, every branch of the administration was reformed, and sati, slavery, and infanticide were prohibited.
Página 31 - Jeipoor, Oojein, Benares, and Mat'hura, upon a scale of Asiatic grandeur ; and their results were so correct as to astonish the most learned. He had previously used such instruments as those of Ulug Beg (the royal astronomer of Samarcand), which failed to answer his expectations.
Página 17 - His sickness and death. succeeded to the titles and renown of an illustrious house, but without a capital, without resources, his kindred and clans dispirited by reverses...
Página 12 - ... Remember that you are no longer the servant of a Toork, but of a Hindu of your own faith." Banbir shortly after carried by assault the ancient fortress of Bhainsror on the Chambal, which was incorporated with Mewar, whose boundaries were now more widely extended than they had ever been before. Hamir was the sole Hindu prince of power left in India ; all the ancient dynasties were crushed, and the ancestors of the present rulers of Marwar and Jaipur paid him homage and obeyed his summons, as did...
Página 16 - He exhibited at his death but the fragments of a warrior : one eye was' lost in the broil with his brother ; an arm in .an action with the Lodi king of Delhi, and he was a cripple owing to a limb being broken by a cannon-ball in another ; while he counted eighty wounds from the sword OF the lance on various parts of his body.
Página 20 - Rana, his son, succeeded him in 1654. This prince showed his high blood by bearing off as his bride a Rajput lady of the house of Marwar, who, solicited in alliance by the bigoted Mahomedan Aurangzib, had appealed to the chivalry of the Rdna, sending him this message : ' Is the swan to be the mate of the stork ? — a Rajputni, pure in blood, to be wife to the monkey-faced barbarian...
Página 16 - He exhibited at his death but the fragment of a warrior ; one eye was lost in the broil with his brother, an arm in an action with the Lodi King of Delhi, and he was a cripple owing to a limb being broken with a cannon-ball in another, while he counted eighty wounds from the sword or the lance on various parts of his body.
Página 23 - Saloombra chief (successor to the murdered noble), who was equally resolved to take the lead, combined with an unextinguishable enmity to the Suktawuts, who supported the policy of the queen-mother, the demoralization of Mewar was complete : her fields were deluged with blood, and her soil was the prey of every paltry marauder.