Udaipur City

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Udaipur, also called the "City of Lakes" or the "Kashmir of Rajasthan," is a major city.  It is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency. It was founded in 1553 by Maharana Udai Singh of the Sisodia clan of Rajput. when he shifted his capital from the city of Chittorgarh to Udaipur.

 Udaipur, India was founded in 1553, by Maharana Udai Singh II in the fertile circular Girwa Valley to the southwest of Nagda, on the Banas River. The city was established as the new capital of the Mewar kingdom.

 The modest palace of Rawal rulers  was located where the present-day Mahasatiya  was developed after the demise of Maharana Amar Singh in 1620. This area also has a large elegantly built step-well the "Gangodbhav-Kund" for community water source and a smaller well with Shiv temple encircled by open corridors nearby. There are temples of Surya, Vishnu, Brahma, Varaha, Chamunda…Besides these Hindu temples, there is also a mosque.

 Because Dewda Rajput families owned agriculture land that would be submerged in Udaisagar, they opposed the construction of this dam. But Maharana Udai Singh tackled the situation tactfully but firmly to see this strategic project through. He granted Dewdas the status of protectors of Udaipur. Not only that, the Maharana rehabilitated them down-stream and bestowed them with first rights to canal irrigation for their new equivalent land grants.
Maharaja Fateh Singh of Udaipur 1884-1930

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