Mewar

[me-wahr]

noun

1. Udaipur.

Mewar

/ mɛˈwɑː /

noun

1. another name for Udaipur

Example Sentences

In the 1870s, Sajjan Singh, the teenage ruler of the Mewar region in western India, ordered the construction of a marble palace on a rugged hill above the lake city of Udaipur.

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The work, which shows a prize stallion being presented to the maharana of Mewar in Udaipur, Rajasthan, was painted in 1845-1846 by an artist known as Tara.

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The Kingdom of Mewar, which was located in what is today known as the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, fell to the continent-bestriding Mughal Empire in the early 1600s.

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In one anonymous portrait, the highlight of “The Frenetic and Bold Style from the Kingdom of Mewar” at Kapoor Galleries, the 19th-century Mewar ruler Bhim Singh rides an enormous white steed with red-rimmed, almost human eyes.

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This part of the drawing depicts the famous city palace where once the maharanas of Mewar lived.

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