The royal rituals of the 'Gaddi ceremony' to anoint the scion of the erstwhile Mewar royal family, Lakshyaraj Singh, as the successor of Arvind Singh Mewar were performed in the City Palace here on Wednesday.
Travelling with Jorge Luis Borges in the Mewar region of Rajasthan is to discover parallels and paradoxes of history, across time, space, and infinity. Maharana Raj Singh, the Custodian of Mewar from 1652 to 1680 CE, planned and built Rajsamand, one of the biggest man-made freshwater lakes of its time; he ordered court historians, poets, and genealogists to install the largest set of inscriptions on marble detailing the history of Mewar and its Maharanas on the lake-front
Author Dr Rima Hooja says her book Maharana Pratap – An Invincible Warrior is trying to look at Pratap before Haldighati, after Haldighati and beyond Haldighati.
