Rajputana : original Rājputāna lay in the north-western part of Bhāratavarsha on both sides of the Aravalli Range (see ‘India’). A large part of it was desert-area with meagre rainfall unequally distributed over the land. For centuries it was ruled by a few powerful dynasties of which the earliest were the Chālukyas & the Rāshṭrakūṭas, the Rāthods of Kanauj, the Chauhans of Ajmer, the Solankīs of Aṇhilwād Pātaṇ, the Guhilots or Sisodias of Mewād & the Kachchwahads of Jaipur. Over time, weakened by internal feuds they succumbed to the invading Mahommedans. Though attempts were made to throw off that yoke, whenever the Mahommedan rulers showed signs of weakness, the Rajputs as a race, failed to unite as one confederacy & benefit fully from the decline of the imperial Mughals in 1707 – as did the Marathas. Worse, they failed to realise that it was in their own interests to ally with the Marathas & prevent the Mahommedan & the British from destroying their common native culture & civilisation. Consequently, at the first opportunity the British partitioned their proud ancestral kingdoms into 23 ‘princely states’, one chiefdom & one estate which were to be ‘ruled’ [=heavily paid for] by them – except the area the named Ajmer-Mārwār kept directly under British bureaucracy – to keep its ‘boots’ on the ground. [Cf. Bhattacharya’s pp.763-64]
... striving with each other for hegemony and overlordship, seems to be indicated in the traditions preserved in the Mahabharata and recurred in a cruder form in the return to the clan nation in mediaeval Rajputana: but in ancient India this was a passing phase and the predominance did not exclude the political and civic influence of men of the other orders or interfere with or exercise any oppressive control... filling the role of the old general assembly in Southern India, more than one coexisting and acting separately or in unison, appear to have been variations Page 417 on this type of body. In Rajputana also the clan family, kula , recovered its political character and action, but in another form and without the ancient institutions and finer cultural temper, although they preserved in a high degree ...
... type", Numismatic Supplement XLVII, 105 - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Letters III , Calcutta, 1937 "The Punjāb, Sindh and Afghānistān", "New Indian States in Rajputana and Madhyadesa", "The Administrative Organisation", "The Coinage", "Social and Economic Conditions", "Religion and Philosophy", "Education, Literature and Sciences", A New History of the Indian... Pushy amitras, 513 Puskaravati, 455 Rāghava/Rāghu, 96 Raghuvamsa, 165 Rājasekhara, 423 Rājasimha, 274 Rājatarahginī, see Kalhana: Rājatarahginī Rajputana, 56 Rāma Dāsarathi, 96, 138, 224 Rama Jamadagnya, 137-8, 224 Rama Rao, 337, 340 Ramāganga, 253 Ramanas/Ramathas (Rhamnai), 247, 530 Ramāyana, 92, 373, 379, 381 ...
... English by Vincent Smith in The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 31, 1902, p. 196. 2.Quoted in English by Govind Pal in The Journal of Indian History, August 1935. p. 197. 3."New Indian States in Rajputana and Madhyadesa", A.New History..., p. 41. 4. Ibid., fn. 2. 5. Ibid. Page 335 the analogy between our Aramaic version and the documents to which Benveniste refers. The... places the Ābhīras in Aparānta; but in another it associates the people with the Sudras, and assigns both the tribes to the land near vinaśena where the Sarasvatī lost itself in the sands of the Rajputana desert. The Ābhīras are also found in association with the Sudras in Patanjali's Mah ā bh ā shya." Patanjali takes us to the pre-Christian era and the association he and the author of the... step was taken in Egypt after the death of Arsinoe Philadelphus (271), when she and her still-living brother-husband, Ptolemy II, began to be worshipped together as 1."New Indian States in Rajputana and Madhyadesa", A New History..., p. 41, fn. 2. 2. An Advanced History of India, pp. 125, 126. 3.Vol. 16, pp. 568, 571. Page 433 theoi adelphoi. After this, the ...
... English by Vincent Smith in The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 31, 1902, p. 196. 2.Quoted in English by Govind Pai in The Journal of Indian History, August 1935, p. 197. 3."New Indian States in Rajputana and Madhyadesa", A New History of the Indian People, edited by R. C. Majumdar and A. S. Altekar (Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore, 1946), Vol. VI, p. 41, fn. I. Page 30 ies even in... C. Their initial establishment would be in Sind, immediately bordering the Erythraean Sea. That the Western Śakas ruled over regions in Sind in addition to Malwa, Gujarat, Kathiawar and western Rajputana is cogently inferred by Sircar' from the archaeological data available. Then there is the title these Śakas use for themselves: "Kshatra-pa" or "Mahakshatrapa". The former is pseudo-Sanskrit ...
... different languages, literatures and other traditions of their own, the four Dravidian peoples, Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Sind, Assam, Orissa, Nepal, the Hindi-speaking peoples of the North, Rajputana and Behar. British rule with its provincial administration did not unite these peoples but it did impose upon them the habit of a common type of administration, a closer intercommunication through ...
... different languages, literatures and other traditions of their own, the four Dravidian peoples, Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Sind, Assam, Orissa, Nepal, the Hindi-speaking peoples of the North, Rajputana and Bihar. British rule with its provincial administration did not unite these peoples but it did impose upon them the habit of a common type of administration, a closer intercommunication through ...
... (brush, style), and was at its height during the reign of this King. ________ *According to Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy, the famous art historian, Rajput painting in general is the painting of Rajputana and part of Central India and Pahari, that is, the regions of the Punjab Himalayas and Garhwal, including the Kangra valley. Since Dr Coomaraswamy's work, much research has gone into identifying ...
... and Aurangzeb (vi) Great Saints: Narsi Mehta, Tulsidas, Meerabai, Surdas, Chaitanya, Tukaram (vii) Establishment ofKhalsa: Guru Gobind Singh (viii) Vijay Nagar (ix) Annals of Rajputana (x) Rana Pratap (xi) The rise of Maratha Power (xi) Shivaji (xii) Sufism VII (i) Arrival of Europeans in India. East India Company (ii) Conflict and chaos ...
... revolutionary work it was that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book. Kali, the Mother, is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. "She went about the Thakurs of Rajputana, trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some kind of revolution. I myself met several Rajput Thakurs who, unsuspected by the Government, had revolutionary ideas and ...
... personality, that came out.... Yoga was Yoga, but it was that sort of work that was, as it were, intended for her. Her book, 'Kali the Mother' is very inspiring. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach revolution to them.... Her eyes showed a power of concentration and revealed a capacity for going into trance. She had got something. She took up politics as a part of Vivekananda's ...
... measures taken by the ruler. Strangely enough, great evils have also sometimes arisen from an act of virtue. As with Prithviraj Chauhan, the King of Delhi, who was steeped in the valorous lore of Rajputana. Well, when he had Muhammad Ghori at his mercy after winning easily the battle against the Muslim invader in 1192, he chivalrously let him off. Ghori returned the next year and treacherously killed ...
... ion, and might do more for the material and commercial development of the country. Granted freedom of action, and with proper endeavour, I am inclined to think that many States in Central India, Rajputana and elsewhere would be able to get even more treasure out of the bowels of the earth than Mysore and Hyderabad at present obtain. But Government help has its limits. My experience teaches me that ...
... strong to survive and await every opportunity of revival, made a bid for empire under Rana Sanga, created the great kingdom of Vijayanagara, held its own for centuries against Islam in the hills of Rajputana, and in its worst days still built and maintained against the whole power of the ablest of the Moguls the kingdom of Shivaji, formed the Mahratta confederacy and the Sikh Khalsa, undermined the great ...
... institution foreign to the Asiatic genius, which is popularly supposed to recoil from freedom and hug most lovingly the heaviest chains. The Patiala Arrests For some time past the Native States of Rajputana and Punjab have been vying with each other in promulgations and legislations of a drastic character against sedition and conspiracy. The object of these edicts seems to be to stifle all agitation ...
... Indian unity and toleration, had become oppressive and disruptive. It was possible because India was then a world to itself and the existence of two geographical units entirely Hindu, Maharashtra and Rajputana, provided it with a basis. It was necessary because the misuse of their domination by the Mahomedan element was fatal to India's future and had to be punished and corrected by the resurgence and ...
... superior to the oaken walls of Old England. Benares was famous all over India for its brass, copper, and bell metal wares. Other important industries included the enameled jewellery and stone carving of Rajputana towns as well as filigree work in gold and silver, ivory, glass, tannery, perfumery and papermaking. All this altered under the British, leading to the de-industrialisation of India - its ...
... survive and await every opportunity for revival; it made a bid for an empire under Rana Sanga, created the great kingdom of Vijayanagara, and held its own for centuries against Islam in the hills of Rajputana. Characteristics of Muslim rule Though the new Muslim rulers built upon the same economic foundations of the Hindu period, they aimed at total destruction of the social, cultural ...
... revolutionary work that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book, Kali the Mother , is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some kind of revolution. I myself met several Rajput Thakurs who, unsuspected by the Government, had revolutionary ideas and tendencies ...
... sort of work was intended for her : that was fire if you like. Her book "Kal“ – the Mother " is”very inspiring, but it is revolutionary and not non-violent. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some sort of revolution. I met several Rajput Thakurs who had revolutionary ideas, unsuspected by the Government. One Thakur Ramsingh ...
... and speak with Indian sub-officers and men of one of these regiments," Sri Aurobindo stated explicitly. Sister Nivedita also had links with Rajput Thakurs. "She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach to them revolution," said Sri Aurobindo with a chuckle. "At that time everybody wanted some kind of revolution. I myself met several Rajput Thakurs who, unsuspected by the Government ...
... * * No, Bharatidi did not go to Luck now, although she toured North India extensively: Bombay was her first impact with the country; Ahmedabad was the next stop. It was followed by a tour of Rajputana. Her first visit was to Mount Abu: "How to describe the impression one gets, the enchantment that transports us when we find ourselves in the midst of a jewel in marble, yellowed by seven centuries ...
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