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Mewar
[ me-wahr ]
Mewar
/ mɛˈwɑː /
noun
- another name for Udaipur
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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