Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s7.t1.82
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c20.s7.t1.82
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v1.c20.s7.t1.82
Death of Rāna Jagat Singh II., A.D. 1751.—In S. 1808 (A.D. 1752) Rana Jagat Singh died. Addicted to pleasure, his habits of levity and profusion totally unfitted him for the task of governing his country at such a juncture; he considered his elephant fights² of more importance than keeping down the Mahrattas. Like all his family, he patronized the arts, greatly enlarged the palace, and expended £250,000 in embellishing the islets of the Pichola. The villas scattered over the valley were all erected by him, and many of those festivals devoted to idleness and dissipation, and now firmly rooted at Udaipur, were instituted by Jagat Singh II.