Rajputana

Alternative spelling Rajpootana

Also see Rajputana Agency

Rajputana was a region in India that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, together with some adjoining areas.

Railway colonies

"Ajmere, Bandikui, Phulera, Gangapur City, Kota, Jodhpur... these were great railway colonies and hence these were hotspots of the Anglo-Indian community"

External links

• Rajputana Wikipedia.

Historical books online

• Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809 by Thomas Duer Broughton. First published 1813, this edition 1892 Archive.org
• Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or The Central and Western Rajput States of India by Lieut-Colonel James Tod, late Political Agent to the Western Rajput States. Originally published in two volumes 1829 and 1832 with title Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. 2nd edition, published in two volumes 1877-9. 1920 reprint editions edited with an introduction and notes by William Crooke.

1920 editions Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Archive.org

Volume I, 1829, Volume II 1832. Archive.org.

Later reprint editions, Archive.org.

• Tiger-shooting in India; being an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons, from 1850 to 1854 by William Rice, Lieutenant 25th Regiment Bombay N I. 1857 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
• Rajputana Agency (1832-1858): A Study of British Relations with the States of Rajputana with special emphasis on the role of the Rajputana Agency by Vijay Kumar Vashishtha c 1978 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India.
• The Rajputana Gazetteer, Volume I 1879 Archive.org

The Rajputana Gazetteer Volume II 1879 Archive.org

• Handbook of the Panjab, Western Rajputana, Kashmir, and Upper Sindh by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1883 Archive.org
• Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
• British Enactments in Force in Native States: Rajputana by J M Macpherson 2nd edition 1899. Archive.org
• The Western Rajputana States: 
a medico-topographical and general account of Marwar, Sirohi, Jaisalmir 
by Lieut.-Colonel Archibald Adams. 1899 Archive.org
• Rajputana District Gazetteers: Volume I-A Ajmer Merwara by C C Watson, ICS 1904 Archive.org
• Through Rajputana to Delhi: An Illustrated Guide to the districts reached by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway by Carlton Stubbs 1907 Archive.org
• Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series: Rajputana 1908. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Other digital files are available.
• Indian Pages and Pictures : Rajputana, Sikkim, the Punjab, and Kashmir by Michael Myers Shoemaker 1912. Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani, Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
• List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Rajputana and Central India by O S Crofton. Table of Contents digital file page 14. Author is catalogued as Croften and publication date 1905, but the latter appears to be c 1934-35. Archive.org version. Also available as Archive.org, 2nd file.
• India of the Rajahs by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
• Mewar and the British 1857-1921 A.D. A History of the Relations of the Mewar State with the British Government of India from 1857 to 1921 A.D. by D L Paliwal [c 1971]. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.

Mewar or Marwar or Udaipur Residency was one of the eight political charges into which Rajputana was divided. Also known as Jodhpur State.