Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c40.105

v3.c40.105

We are now in the very region where Humayun suffered these miseries, and in its chief town, Umarkot, Akbar, the greatest monarch India ever knew, first saw the light. Let us throw aside the veil which conceals the history of the race of Humayun’s protector, and notwithstanding he is now but nominal sovereign of Umarkot, and lord [310] of the village of Chor,² give him “a local habitation and a name,” even in the days of the Macedonian invader of India.