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Updated: June 13, 2025
There were they and here was he: close relations, in effect; almost strangers in fact. There was more between him and them than several hundred miles of sea. There was the bottomless gulf of the War; the gulf of his bitter grief and the slow climb up from the depths to Pisgah heights of revelation. Impossible to communicate even had he willed those inner, vital experiences at Chitor and Jaipur.
But just then steeped in India at her most magical hour it was hard to believe in the Residency household; in English dinner-tables and English detachment from the mediæval medley of splendour and squalor, of courage and cruelty and dumb endurance, of arts and crafts and all the paraphernalia of enlightened knowledge that was Jaipur.
With all his individuality, he was no egoist; and very much a lover of his kind. Imbued with the spirit of the quest, yet averse by temperament to ploughing the lonely furrow. It had been his own choice if you could call it so, starting this way, instead of in the friendly atmosphere of the Jaipur Residency. But was there really such a thing as choice?
But, during the disturbances which followed the death of Sher Sháh, they had recovered their independence, and at the accession of Akbar they still held their high place among the states of Rájpútána. Of the other states it may briefly be stated that the rulers of Jaipur had paid homage to the Mughal in the time of Bábar.
In such conditions the Dâdupanthis cannot increase greatly but they number about nine thousand and are found chiefly in the state of Jaipur, especially in the town of Naraina. The Sikh religion is of special interest since it has created not only a political society but also customs so distinctive that those who profess it rank in common esteem as a separate race.
I wonder ?" Desmond who had chiefly been talking to divert the current of his thoughts noted, with satisfaction, how his simple tactics had taken effect. "We'll write to-morrow eh?" said he. "Better still happy thought! I'll bear down on Jaipur myself, for Christmas leave. Rare fine pig-sticking in those parts." The happy thought proved a masterstroke.
"But," he asked, "how long are you hanging about Delhi like this?" "As long as I choose." "But why?" "To see something of you, old chap. It seems the only way unless I can persuade you to chuck all this poisonous vapouring, and come back to Jaipur with me. Arúna's waiting breaking her heart longing to see you...."
The Emperor was in front of his men, having by his side the gallant Rájpút prince, Rájá Bhagwán Dás of Jaipur, whose sister he had married, and the Rájá's nephew and destined successor, Mán Singh, one of the most brilliant warriors of the day. The three were in the greatest danger, for the enemy made tremendous efforts to break in upon them.
The Englishmen could talk freely in the presence of cultured Indians who stood for Jaipur and Hyderabad, since both States were loyal to the core. Dyán, like Lance, spoke little and pondered much on the talk of these men, whose straight speech and thoughts were refreshing as their own sea breezes after the fumes of rhetoric, the fog of false values that had bemused his brain these three years.
I am Roy from Jaipur." In spite of the warning, Dyán drew back sharply. "What are you here for spying?" "No. Hoping to find you. Because I care; and Arúna cares " "Better to care less and understand more," Dyán muttered brusquely. "No time for talk now. Listen. You may learn a few things Oxford could not teach."
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