Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s1.159

v3.c41.s1.159

¹ Two or three times he had a chance of being placed on the gaddi (vide letter of Resident with Sindhia to Government, March 27, 1812), which assuredly ought to be his: once, about 1810, when the nobles of Jaipur were disgusted with the libertine Jagat Singh; and again, upon the death of this dissolute prince, in 1820. The last occasion presented a fit occasion for his accession; but the British Government were then the arbitrators, and I doubt much if his claims were disclosed to it, or understood by those who had the decision of the question, which nearly terminated in a civil war.