"Temples were desecrated, palaces and 'havelis' denuded of their wealth and works of art, vandalised. hardly anything …"

"In June 1576 Maharana Pratap of Chittor had to face Akbar’s armies in the famous battle of Haldighati. Rana Pratap fo…"

"“In Rajab AH 836 (AD February-March, 1433) Sultãn Ahmad mounted an expedition for the conquest of MewãR and Nãgaur. W…"

"Balban, when he was Ulugh Khan Khan-i-Azam, once brought to Delhi (in about 1260) two hundred fifty 'Hindu leading me…"

"2 August 1680: ‘Temple of Someshwar in western Mewar ordered to be destroyed.’"

"All this reads like a fairy tale, but it is history. And the history of Mewar has a moral to teach : the spirit of ma…"

"You would, my Arabella, be enraptured at the extreme neatness of even the meanest attendant; but besides the beauty a…"

"Cleanliness was literally next to godliness in India; hygiene was not, as Anatole France thought it, la seule morale,…"

"A surprising spirit of cleanliness is to be observed among the Hindoos: the streets of their villages are commonly sw…"

"The Brahman usually washed his hands, feet and teeth before and after each meal; he ate with his fingers from food on…"