Edur : Idar is c.60-70 km west of Dongurh, c.90 km SE of Deesa, c.200 km SW of Chitore, c.300 kms north of Baroda, & c.40 km NE of Vijāpur, & c.60km NE of Gujāria. It was recaptured by Bāppā Rāwal because it belonged to his father the Guhilot king Mahendra II. Around 1257, Rao Sonamji, originally of Sametra, younger son of Rao Shevji of Mandore (Mārwād), conquered a large tract along the river Sabarmati from Mosar in the north to Vāsna state near Sadrā, Ahmedabad, & founded a dynasty that ruled his kingdom from Idar. In 1729, when Abhay Singh, Raja of Jodhpur, was Moghul Subedār of Gujarat, & his brother Bakht Singh was the conqueror of Nagar, two other brothers, named Ananda Singh & Rai Singh, established themselves at Idar by force of arms. The Peshwa & the Gaekwad forced Raja Sheva Singh to cede part of his territories, & pay tribute to the Gaekwad in exchange for receiving tributes from some other minor States. Early in 1902, British Justice hung Idar State round the neck of Pratāpsingh (son of Takhtsingh, the Maharaja of Jodhpur) & Regent of Jodhpur 1895-98 – because in 1901-02 he helped the Octopus annexe Kabul & China, & “because he belonged to the Ahmadnagar branch of the (original) Idar family, & was selected by right & merit to succeed to the vacant gādi of Idar”. On accession to this gādi Pratāpsingh was made Hon. Maj.-Gen., Hon. Commandant of the Indian Imperial Cadet Corps, & Hon. ADC to the King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was granted a 15-gun salute & permission to maintain a grand ‘army’ of 54 cavalry, 100 infantry & 21 guns. [Buckland] In 1901, Idar State comprised 884 villages with a population of 168,557, covering 4,323 square km. Since 1948, Idar is part of Sābarkānthā district, Gujarat.
... Rodogune, Vasavadutta and Eric) and three unfinished plays (The House of Brut, The Maid in the Mill and Prince of Edur) were published, first in Sri Aurobindo Annual year after year and later in book form. The Prince of Mathura, an earlier version of Prince of Edur, and two dramatic pieces of his student days - The Witch of Ilni and 'Fragment of a Drama' (a dialogue between Achab... the usurper Atry, and perhaps Ajamede also marries Atry's daughter, Urmila. Sri Aurobindo seems to have enlarged the theme in Prince of Edur by making the historically more authentic Bappa "in refuge among the Bheels" take the place of Ajamede. Prince of Edur was written (according to the Bibliographical Note in Vol. 7) "in the very thick of Sri Aurobindo's political activity". Historically... forest, become their chieftain, and ultimately founded a Kingdom around Chitor. In Sri Aurobindo's play, Bappa of the Bheels - who is really the Prince of Edur in exile - manages to thwart the designs of all his enemies including the usurper Rana of Edur, and marries his daughter as well. The clash of interests and the heady march of events make for dramatic excitement, but Sri Aurobindo seems also to have ...
... The Prince of Edur Persons of the Drama RANA CURRAN - Prince of Edur, of the Rahtore clan. VISALDEO - a Brahmin, his minister; formerly in the service of the Gehlote Prince of Edur. HARIPAL - a Rajpoot noble, General of Edur; formerly in the service of the Gehlote Prince. BAPPA - son of the late Gehlote Prince of Edur, in refuge among the Bheels. SUNGRAM... NIRMOL CUMARY - daughter of Haripal, friend of Comol Cumary. ISHANY - a Rajpoot maiden, in attendance on Comol Cumary. Page 847 Act I The Palace in Edur. The forests about Dongurh. Scene I The Palace in Edur. Rana Curran, Visaldeo. CURRAN He is at Deesa then? VISALDEO So he has written. CURRAN Send out a troop for escort, yielding him Such honours... arrows. CURRAN The lord of Edur should not fear such rude And paltry caterans. When they see our banner Advancing o'er the rocks, they will avoid Its peril. Or if there's danger, take the road That skirts the hills. Ten lances, Visaldeo! Exit. MENADEVI My blood shall never mingle with the Scythian. I am a Chouhan first and next your wife, Edur. What means this move to Dongurh ...
... Aurobindo's play. The Prince of Edur. Editorial title. Sri Aurobindo wrote the three acts of this incomplete play between 28 January and 1 February 1907, and copied them on 11 and 12 February. He was at that time staying at his family's house in Deoghar, Bihar, during a brief respite from his political activities. The plot of The Prince of Edur is based loosely on the life of Bappa... was familiar to Sri Aurobindo, who was posted in the area while serving as a Baroda state officer. The Prince of Mathura. Editorial title. This fragment, related in theme to The Prince of Edur , was written a few years later, probably in 1909 or 1910. The Birth of Sin. This fragment, written in the same notebook as The Prince of Mathura , must date from the same period, ...
... in the pages of James Tod's Annals of Rajasthan. Bappa among the Bheels is really the Gehelote Prince of Edur, and it is his destiny to get the better of all his rivals and enemies —Toraman the Cashmerean, Pratap of Ichalgurh, and Rana Curran the usurper of Edur—and also to marry Comol Cumary, the Rana's daughter. Is Toraman the puffed-up foreigner with a stranglehold on India? Is Rana... latter, only one— Perseus the Deliverer —appeared in his own life-time. Four other five act plays— Vasavadutta, Rodogune, The Viziers of Bassora and Eric —and an unfinished play entitled Prince of Edur have been published posthumously. It is not surprising therefore that Perseus is the maturest, but there are fine things in all the plays. Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster... characters, action—are seized poetically, and the "leap of love across the abyss of hate" is presented almost as a lightning flash, a blaze of revelation. 112 The incomplete play, Prince of Edur (1961), is dated 1907, and thus belongs to the early months of Sri Aurobindo's editorship of Bande Mataram. It would be reasonable therefore to read in this unfinished play (only three out of the ...
... out suggestions, hinting at possibilities, invoking inspiring visions of the future." 4 Apart from the five complete plays Sri Aurobindo has left behind some dramatic fragments like Prince of Edur (only three Acts), The Maid in the Mill (only the first Act and part of the second Act) and The House of Brut (only one scene). Strangely enough, although these three plays as they are extant are... enjoyment of living. The humour expressed is either in the play of words or is of situation or of characters or of all of them together. The incomplete plays, The Maid in the Mill and The Prince of Edur are all full of joie de vivre and gaiety. The Maid in the Mill is a play largely about wit. It is full of word-play and has strong feminist undertones. It has laughter in every page. Readers ...
... Deliverer, 120-9; The Viziers of Bassora, 128-34; Rodogune, 13441; Eric, 141-7; Vasavadutta, 147-52; The Witch of Ilni, 152; The Maid in the Mill, 153; The House of Brut, 153; Prince of Edur, 154-5; early philosophical poems, 157ff; A Vision of Science, 159-61; A Dream of Surreal Science, 160; Who, 161, 337; Invitation, 161; The Fear of Death, 162; Life and Death, 163; Rebirth... 300 Pinto "Udar", 579, 739 Piper, Raymond R, 20, 515 Plato, 48, 418, 441 Plotinus, 441 Poddar, Arabinda, 26fh Prasad, Narayan, 579 Prince of Edur, The, 119,120, 152,154-55 Prince of Mathura, The, 119 Pringle-Kennedy, Mrs. and Miss, 305, 365 Prothero, G. W., 33, 37 Psychology of Social Development, The, ...
... Collected Plays AND SHORT STORIES, Part One; Perseus the Deliverer; Vasavadutta; Rodogune; Eric. Volume 7 — Collected Plays AND SHORT STORIES, Part Two: The Viziers of Bassora; Prince of Edur; The Maid in the Mill; The House of Brut; The Prince of Mathura; The Birth of Sin: Vikramorvasie (The Hero and the Nymph). Short Stories: Idylls of the Occult: The Phantom Hour; The Door at Abelard; ...
... (Ashram, 1956). Vasavadutta (Ashram, 1957). Rodogune (Ashram, 1958). The Viziers of Bassora (Ashram, 1959). Eric (Ashram, 1960). Prince of Edur (Ashram, 1961). Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol (Ashram, 1995) The Future Poetry (Ashram, 1953). Vyasa and Valmiki (Ashram, 1956). Kalidasa (Arya Publishing ...
... Page 495 Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371 Quiller-couch, Sir Arthur 377 Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 25 Rai, Lala Lajpat 10 Rajagopalachari, C (Rajaji) ...
... Part One: Perseus the Deliverer; Vasavadutta; Rodogune; Eric. Volume 7 Collected Plays AND SHORT STORIES, Part Two: The Viziers of Bassora; Prince of Edur; The Maid in the Mill; The House of Brut; The Prince of Mathura; The Birth of Sin; Vikramorvasie (The Hero and the Nymph): Short Stories: Idylls of the Occult: The Phantom Hour; The Door ...
... Deoghar for recuperation. December At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. 1907 January-April In Deoghar. January 28 - February 12 Works on Prince of Edur, a dramatic romance. April 12-23 The Doctrine of Passive Resistance serialised in the Bande Mataram. June 2 First issue of the weekly edition of the Bande Mataram. June 8 ...
... January 1960, pp. 27-8. 111. Eric: A Dramatic Romance, p. 67. 112. My account of Eric is largely based on my review of the play in The Aryan Path. 113. Prime of Edur,p.91. 114. ibid., p. 18. 115. Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, pp. 409-10. See Iyengar, Urvasi (Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1949). 116. Collected ...
... 11-14 In Deoghar for recuperation. December At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. 1907 — January-April In Deoghar. January 28-February 12 Works on Prince of Edur, a dramatic romance. April 12-23 The Doctrine of Passive Resistance serialised in the Bande Mataram. June 1 First issue of the weekly edition of the Bande Mataram. ...
... unmistakably dyed with purpose. Eric is Norway's unifier, but he sees the wisdom of balancing the claims of Thor and Odin with those of Freya - in other words, of Power and Love. Bappa the Prince of Edur is both liberator and redeemer, and regains his Kingdom as well as wins a bride in Kamal Kumari. In the maturer play, Perseus the Deliverer, Sri Aurobindo projected his dialectical idea of progress ...
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