Volume 4 — Rājpūt, Sesodia
Reading edition
The Mahārāna of Udaipur is entitled to a salute of nineteen guns. The Udaipur State has an area of nearly 13,000 square miles and a population of about a million persons. Besides Udaipur three minor states, Partābgarh, Dungarpur and Banswāra, are held by members of the Sesodia clan. In the Central Provinces the Sesodias numbered nearly 2000 persons in 1911, being mainly found in the districts of the Nerbudda Division.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · J.A.S.B. (1909), vol. v. p. 167.Note 2 · Imperial Gazetteer, loc. cit.Note 3 · Bhandarkar, loc. cit. p. 180.Note 4 · The following extracts from the history of the clan are mainly taken from the article on Udaipur State in the Imperial Gazetteer.Note 5 · Rājasthān, pp. 222, 223.Note 6 · Forbes, Rāsmala i. p. 400.Note 7 · Rajasthān i. pp, 398, 399. The death of the young princess was mainly the work of Amīr Khān Pindāri who brought pressure on the Rāna to consNote 8 · If the Chalukyas were in the Deccan in the fourth century they could not have originated from the Hun and Gūjar invaders of the fifth and siNote 9 · Some Problems of Ancient Indian History, by Dr. Rudolf Hoernle, J.R.A.S. (1905) pp. 1–14.Note 10 · Rājpūt, Solankhi, Solanki, Chalukya.—This clan was one of the Agnikula or fire-born, and are hence considered to have probably been GurjarasNote 11 · Tribes and Castes, s.v.Note 12 · Rājpūt, Somvansi, Chandravansi.—These two are returned as separate septs, though both names mean ‘Descendants of the moon.’ Colonel Tod consNote 13 · Ibidem, art. Soiri.Note 14 · Rājpūt, Sūrajvansi.—The Sūrajvansi (Descendants of the Sun) is recorded as the first of the thirty-six royal clans, but Colonel Tod gives noNote 15 · Mr Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Tomara.Note 16 · Early History of India, 3rd edition, p. 386.Note 17 · Elliot, Supplemental Glossary, s.v.Note 18 · Mr. Crooke’s Tribes, and Castes, art. Tomara.Note 19 · Rājpūt, Tomara, Tuar, Turtwar.—This clan is an ancient one, supposed by Colonel Tod to be derived from the Yādavas or lunar race. The name iNote 20 · Rājpūt; Yādu, Yādava, Yādu-Bhatti, Jādon.1—The Yādus are a well-known historical clan. Colonel Tod says that the Yādu was the most illustrio