History Of Mewar

IF we except three or four pamphlets written admittedly as guide books to Udaipur and containing brief notices of its annals, the only two publications which give any detailed and connected history of Mewar are Tod’s well known “Rajasthan” and Brooke’s “History of Mewar.” History of Mewar Pinhey

Of the former Sir George Birdwood (a) has well said:-“This book is an inexhaustible storehouse of the known and accessible information of the Rajputs and Rajasthan, as limited by the modern official circle of Rajputana; and although in the present day its author’s conclusions on certain points of obscure ethnology and obscurer philology may be questioned, it remains the standard history of Rajputana. But the work is contained in two bulky volumes, has long been out of print. and is too solid and pre-occupying reading for the present day of professional culture and superficial knowledge.”

It may be added that so much new information on the ancient history of the Rajputs has come to light since Tod’s time that it is not merely certain points of obscure ethnology and obscurer philology which should be questioned, but that many of the earlier chapters in the Annals require to be revised. Many of the authorities on which he relied are now known to be untrustworthy and his translation of manuscripts and Inscriptions is inaccurate. For the value of the Prithwi Raj Rasa of the poet Chand, for instance, to which Tod admits that he was so much indebted for his information about genealogies and his account of the famous Rawal Samar Singh, it is sufficient to quote from a paper in the journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society for 1886. History of Mewar Pinhey

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