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Likewise is he not the chief of the only royal house of Rajputana, who disdained to purchase Mogul friendship at the price of giving a daughter in marriage to the Mohammedan? There are greater personages among the ruling Princes of India, according to British ruling Hyderabad, for instance.
There he received the homage of the son of the Rájá of that principality, then the most powerful in Rájpútána, and that of the Rájá of Bíkáner and his son. As a tribute of his appreciation of the loyalty of the latter, Akbar took the Rájá's daughter in marriage.
He chose his ministers and generals indiscriminately from all his subjects, without distinction of race or religion. He allied himself in marriage with the royal Hindu families of Rajputana.
Roberts, the Maharajah smiled, thinking of the bravery of his Chitans, the strength of his fortifications, the depth of his walls, and the wheat stored in his city granaries. No one had ever taken Lalpore since the Chitans took it in all Rajputana there were none so cunning and so brave as the Chitans. As to bravery, greater than Rajput bravery simply did not exist.
There has been a woeful shortage of rain in the Punjab and Rajputana, and a famine seems imminent not a great and universal famine, as, the monsoon having been irregular, only some districts have suffered to a serious extent, and they can be supplied from elsewhere, whereas in the great famine of 1901 the drought parched the whole land, and no help could be given by one State to another, all lying equally under the sun's curse.
Then what do you say? you and I might achieve a larger reproduction for Grandfather: a gift to Rajputana my source of inspiration; a tribute ... to her memory, who still lights our lives ... with the inextinguishable lamp of her spirit "
He was the same yellow-haired, blue-eyed Sunni, considerably tanned by the fierce winds of Rajputana; but there came a brightness over his face as he listened, that had not been there since he was a very little boy. 'How beautiful the music is! said he to Moti. Moti put his fingers in his ears. 'It is horrible, he cried. 'It screams and it rushes. How can they be able to make it?
Bishen Singh, his clean cut nostrils still quivering, watched the large sweep of the whip as it traveled from the frontier, through Sindh, the Punjab and Rajputana, till it rested by the valley of the Jumna. "Hate eternal and inextinguishable hate," concluded Orde, flicking the lash of the whip across the large map from East to West as he sat down.
She was counting on him to readjust the scales. Thank goodness for Lance giving up the Lahore 'week' and the Polo Tournament to spend Christmas with her and Roy in the wilds of Rajputana. Just to have him about the place again his music, his big laugh, his radiant certainty that, in any and every circumstance, it was a splendid thing to be alive would banish worries and lift her spirits sky-high.
Once a people has emerged above the barbaric stage to a national consciousness, that consciousness will endure. There is practically always going to be an Egypt, a Poland, an Armenia. There is no Indian nation, there never has been, but there are manifestly a Bengal and a Rajputana, there is manifestly a constellation of civilised nations in India.
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