Identifier: imperialindiaar00prin (find matches)
Title: Imperial India; an artist's journals
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Prinsep, Val C. (Val Cameron), 1838-1904
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Publisher: London Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e I said ? I am afraid of having committed myself,and stated the Rajah is a beautiful dog. I d better hold mytongue. I look from the window. All about me are pigeons,some with silver bangles round their red legs. What am I tosay.^ The thakoor is as bored as I — as the Rajah. What anuisance that I cannot communicate my ideas! I gaze from thewindows again. On the opposite window I see an inscription;it looks in a strange character; but, no surely, though half wornout, that must be an A and that an L. Yes! I have it! Ladies superfine cloth,—that is what I read on the Rajahsblinds, in rather worn golden letters. It is twenty minutes pastfive, and I cannot see beyond six. Confound all Rajahs!—Ah !here he comes! I must smile and be happy, with black rage atmy heart. These are my suffering, O my friends ! and shouldanybody wish to. paint rajahs, I should say, Dont 1 Yet theman does not appear to be rude. Verily rajahs have no moreidea of the value of time than sitting hens. G is right.
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p. 126 II. H. JESWANT SING, MAHARAJAH OF JODHPORE. J.ODHPORE, 127 ^ Hooli, the great festival of the Hindoos, being now on, andthere being an eclipse of the full moon, the Rajah has asked tobe excused sitting for two days. More delays! However, itcant be helped, and I must employ my time sketching. These Rahtors are descended from Seoji, a grandson ofJeichund, the Emperor of Canooj mentioned before. By thesword, like every other empire, was the State of Marwar gained,and if any one reads the pages of Tod, he must own it wasplentifully cemented with the best Chohan blood. The Rahtoris essentially a man of the sword. One Rahtor is equal to tenCuchwahas, and the Rao and Rajahs of Marwar are mightywarriors rather than statesmen, like the Jey Sings of Dhoondef.If the feudal system is prevalent in Rajpootana, it is all-powerfulin Marwar. From Jodha the land was divided among eight greatclans, called in the language of the poet the Eight Pillars ofMaroo; and although in the main the chiefs o

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