Rajput Prince – Sawaii Jai Singh (1693-1743)

The Tibetan has Koot Hoomi {Kut Humi) as a Rajput Prince. A search of this term led me to this gentleman – a statesman, legislator, man of science and astronomer. The builder of Jaipur. He was clearly highly educated. He may have found the English of the day crass and bellicose merchants.

Excerpted from “The Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan” by Lieut-Colonel James Tod

This version published by Oxford University Press in 1920

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