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Mewar

[ me-wahr ]

Mewar

/ mɛˈwɑː /

noun

  1. another name for Udaipur
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

In the 1870s, Sajjan Singh, the teenage ruler of the Mewar region in western India, ordered the construction of a marble palace on a rugged hill above the lake city of Udaipur.

The work, which shows a prize stallion being presented to the maharana of Mewar in Udaipur, Rajasthan, was painted in 1845-1846 by an artist known as Tara.

The Kingdom of Mewar, which was located in what is today known as the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, fell to the continent-bestriding Mughal Empire in the early 1600s.

In one anonymous portrait, the highlight of “The Frenetic and Bold Style from the Kingdom of Mewar” at Kapoor Galleries, the 19th-century Mewar ruler Bhim Singh rides an enormous white steed with red-rimmed, almost human eyes.

This part of the drawing depicts the famous city palace where once the maharanas of Mewar lived.

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