Author: Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 1984
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812500339
Description
A manuscript by India's most eminent historian of his time was completed in 1940 but Rajput sensitivity on some aspect prevented its publication for 45 years.
Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II , the last ruler of the erstwhile Jaipur State, commissioned a history of his dynasty and the state. Sir Jadunath Sarkar, the most eminent Indian historian of the time, agreed to take up the task and completed the manuscript in 1939-40.
Rajput sensitivity towards incidents depicting Mughal-Rajput relations, and other obstacles, prevented publication, and the History was preserved over the decades by the Sawai Man Singh II Museum at the City Palace, Jaipur.
It is now close to forty-five years since Jadunath Sarkar completed his manuscript. Shri Raghubir Singh, a student of Sir Jadunath's and a historian in his own right, was entrusted with the editing and updating of the original manuscript. The result is a doubly valuable work of reference, based on material from the ancient archives of the Kachhawa House of Jaipur, and preserved almost intact for three and a half centuries.
Contents
Foreword by Rajmata Gayatri Devi
Preface
Editor's Note
List of Abbreviations
CHAPATER I
The Land, Its Features and Produce
CHAPATER II
The People
CHAPATER III
The Early Kachhwa Kings
CHAPATER IV
How Akbar Won the Kachhwas Over
CHAPATER V
Akbar's Wars Against the Maharana of Mewar
CHAPATER VI
The Kachhwas as Wardens of the North-Western frontier
CHAPATER VII
Man Singh in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and the Deccan
CHAPATER VIII
Interlude and Mirza Raja Jai Singh (First Phase): 1614-1637
CHAPATER IX
Jai Singh in the War of Mughal Succession
CHAPATER X
Jai Singh and Shivaji
CHAPATER XI
The Last Campaign and Death of Jai Singh I
CHAPATER XII
Ram Singh and Bishan Singh, 1667-1700
CHAPATER XIII
Sawai Jai Singh's Early Career
CHAPATER XIV
Sawai Jai Singh's Dealing with the Marathas
CHAPATER XV
Sawai Jai Singh and Rajputana
CHAPATER XVI
Sawai Jai Singh's City and Observatory
CHAPATER XVII
Sawai Jai Singh's Achievement and Character
CHAPATER XVIII
Ishwari Singh, 1743-1750
CHAPATER XIX
Sawai Madho Singh, 1751 - 1768
CHAPATER XX
The Jaipur State and the Imperial Delhi Government, 1778-1785
CHAPATER XXI
Mahadji Sindhia Invades Jaipur: the Lalsot Campaign, 1786-1787
CHAPATER XXII
The Last Rajput Struggle against the Marathas: the Battle of Patan, 1790
CHAPATER XXIII
The Last Years of Sawai Pratap Singh, 1791-1803
CHAPATER XXIV
The British Alliance
CHAPATER XXV
The Last Days of the Ancient Regime in Jaipur
CHAPATER XXVI
The Reign of Ram Singh II: The First Half
CHAPATER XXVII
The Reign of Ram Singh II: An Era of Progress
CHAPATER XXVIII
Sawai Madho Singh II
CHAPATER XXIX
Sawai Man Singh II: Education and Share in Administration
CHAPATER XXX
Jaipur Administrative Activities Today
Plates
Appendices
1. From Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah I's letter to Sawai Singh II
2. Captain J. Pillet's account of Sawai Pratap Singh
Index