Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s3.29

v2.c28.s3.29

Power of the Aristocracy of Mārwār.—The aristocracy in Marwar has always possessed more power than in any of the sister principalities around. The cause may be traced to their first settlement in the desert; and it has been kept in action by the peculiarities of their condition, especially in that protracted struggle for the rights of the minor Ajit, against the despotism of the empire. There was another cause, which, at the present juncture, had a very unfortunate influence on the increase of this preponderance, and which arose out of the laws of adoption.