Udaipur : was founded in 1560 by Rāṇā Udai Singh (1529-72) of Mewād. It became his capital after a vindictive Akbar reduced Chittodgadh to rubble in 1568.
... Goswami, but he did not bring these things into his politics. [At this time there was at Bombay a secret society headed by a Rajput prince of Udaipur.] This Rajput leader was not a prince, that is to say a Ruling Chief but a noble of the Udaipur State with the title of Thakur. The Thakur was not a member of the council in Bombay; he stood above it as the leader of the whole movement while the ...
... Dara writes clever things. PURANI: To return to the Princes. The States are not coming forward with any progressive policy. Bikanir is trying to crush the nationalist movement. Udaipur also. SRI AUROBINDO: Udaipur is understandable; he is old-fashioned. But Bikanir has knocked about in the world. If Chamber of Princes gives some reforms, it will forestall Vallabhbhai Patel. One should begin with ...
... to give training in rifle-shooting. Earlier Sri Aurobindo had learnt of a secret revolutionary society in Maharashtra under the leadership of Thakur Ram Singh, a Rajput prince from the State of Udaipur. Sri Aurobindo joined its Bombay branch and took the oath of the party. The Thakur was actively engaged in winning over regiments of the Indian Army to the revolutionary movement. Sri Aurobindo ...
... objects in Bengal... and they took the oath of the Society and agreed to carry out its objects on the lines suggested by Sri Aurobindo. 187. The leader of this Society, who was "a noble of the Udaipur State with the title of Thakur Saheb, worked principally upon the Indian army of which he had already won over two or three regiments." Sri Aurobindo later became President of the Bombay Council ...
... besides - don't appear. I wonder if it will be performed in India and if so how India will take this internationalization of India's most Indian of epics. My friend Prince Kumar, a descendant of the Udaipur family, told me, quite casually, that his relations had tried to poison him when he was a child and I said 'just like the Mahabharata' and he replied 'They haven't changed!' Something to do with ...
... the nobles. His position is that of first among equals, not that of an absolute prince or supreme ruler. We find this conception of kingship continued till the present day in the Rajput States; at Udaipur, for instance, no alienation of land can take place without the signature of all the nobles; although the Maharaja is the head of the State, the sacred descendant of the Sun, his power is a delegated ...
... before fruition could become possible". 40 Returning to Baroda, Sri Aurobindo met Mr. Mandavale, a member of a Secret Society in Western India which had as its directing chief a Thakur of the Udaipur State, and took the oath of the Revolutionary Party. This meant Sri Aurobindo making a special journey into central India to try to win over Indian sub-officers and men in certain regiments to the ...
... moderate movement. We were training people in our Secret Society started by Tilak." The leader of the Secret Society's movement was one of the Thakurs. He was not a Ruling Chief, "but a noble of the Udaipur State with the title of Thakur. The Thakur was not a member of the Council in Bombay; he stood above it as the leader of the whole movement while the Council helped him to organise Maharashtra and ...
... and touched the ground in three places, and from each place water had sprung up and formed lakes. So he named the place Pushkar, which can mean a lotus or a lake. From Ajmer Bharatidi went to Udaipur, the city of lakes, which many call the Venice of the East. Then to the pink city of Jaipur. Through her travels and meetings with all types of people Bharatidi came to know the history and the lore ...
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