Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c18.s2.t1.45

v1.c18.s2.t1.45

The Rajput, with all his turbulence, possesses in an eminent degree both loyalty and patriotism; and though he occasionally exhibits his refractory spirit to his [195] father and sovereign,³ we shall see of what he is capable when his country is threatened with dismemberment, from the history of Mewar, and the reign of Ajit Singh of Marwar. In this last we have one of the noblest examples history can afford of unbounded devotion. A prince, whom not a dozen of his subjects had ever seen, who had been concealed from the period of his birth throughout a tedious minority to avoid the snares of a tyrant,⁴ by the mere magic of a name kept the discordant materials of a great feudal association