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UDAIPUR, OODEYPORE

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UDAIPUR, OODEYPORE or MEWAR, a native See also:state of See also:India, in the See also:Rajputana agency. See also:Area, 12,691 sq. m. Pop. (1901), 1,030,212. Estimated See also:revenue £200,000; See also:tribute £17,000. The greater See also:part of the See also:country is level See also:plain. A See also:section of the Aravalli Mountains extends over the See also:south-western and See also:southern portions, and is See also:rich in minerals, but the mines have been See also:long closed. The See also:general inclination of the country is from south-See also:west to See also:north-See also:east, the See also:Banas and its numerous feeders flowing from the See also:base of the Aravalli range. There are many lakes and tanks in the state, the finest of which is the Debar or Jaisamand, with an area, of nearly 21 sq. m.; it is considered to be the largest artificial See also:sheet of See also:water in the See also:world. A portion of the state is traversed by the See also:Malwa See also:line of the Rajputana railway. A See also:branch from Chitor towards Udaipur was taken over by the state in 1898, and was extended nearer to the See also:capital. Like the See also:rest of Rajputana the state suffered severely from See also:famine in 1900.

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ancient coinage is of the Sasanian or See also:Persian type, See also:copper 'issues of this type being still in circulation. See also:Modern coins See also:bear on the See also:reverse the words " Friend of See also:London." The See also:chief, whose See also:title is maharana, is the See also:head of the Sisodhyia See also:clan of Rajputs, and claims to be the See also:direct representative of Rama, the mythical See also:king of See also:Ajodhya. He is universally recognized as the highest in See also:rank of all the See also:Rajput princes. The See also:dynasty offered a heroic resistance to the Mahommedans, and boast that they never gave a daughter to a See also:Mogul See also:emperor; They are said to have come from See also:Gujarat and settled at Chitor in the 8th See also:century. After the See also:capture of Chitor by See also:Akbar in 1568 the capital was removed to Udaipur by Maharana Udai Singh. During the 18th century the state suffered greatly from See also:internal dissension and from the inroads of the See also:Mahrattas. It came under See also:British See also:protection in 1817. The Maharana Fateh Singh, G.C. S. I. (b. 1848), succeeded by See also:adoption in 1884.

The name of Mewar is derived from the Meos, or See also:

Minas, a tribe of mixed Rajput origin, who have likewise given their name to a different See also:tract in See also:northern Rajputana, called Mewat, where they are now all Mahommedans. About 1400 a sub-See also:division of the Mewatis, called Khanzadas, made themselves the dominant See also:power in this tract; and at the end of the 18th century, and again during the See also:Mutiny, they were notorious for their ravages in the Upper See also:Doab, around See also:Agra and See also:Delhi. In 1901 the See also:total number of Mewatis in Rajputana was 168,596, forming 13 % of the See also:population in the state of See also:Alwar. Down to 1906 the Mewar residency was the title of a See also:political agency in Rajputana, comprising the four states of Udaipur, See also:Banswara, See also:Dungarpur and See also:Partabgarh ; area, 16,970 sq. m. ; pop. (1901), 1,336,283. But in that See also:year the three last states were separated from Udaipur, and formed into the Southern Rajputana States agency. The Mewar Bhil See also:Corps, raised as a See also:local See also:battalion in 1840, which was conspicuously loyal during the Mutiny, was in 1897 attached to the See also:Indian See also:army, with its headquarters at Kherwara. The See also:city of UDAIPUR is 2469 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901), 45,976. It is situated in a valley amid wooded hills, on the See also:bank' of a large See also:lake (Pichola), with palaces built of See also:granite and See also:marble.

The maharana's See also:

palace, which crowns the See also:ridge on which the city stands, See also:dates originally from' about 1570, but has had additions made to it till it has become a conglomeration of various architectural styles. On Lake Pichola are two islands, on which are palaces dating respectively from the See also:middle of the :7th and of the 18th centuries. In one of these the See also:European residents were sheltered during the Indian Mutiny. In the neighbourhood are Eklingji (with a magnificent See also:temple of the 15th century), and Nagda, the seat of the ancestors of the chiefs of Udaipur, with a number of temples, two of which are said to date from the 11th century. There is another UDAIPUR STATE in the Central Provinces (till 1905 one of the See also:Chota See also:Nagpur states of See also:Bengal). Area, 1052 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 45,391. Its capital is Dharmjaygarh.

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