A TOUR TO THE RAJPUTANA Chapter-2
Chapter 2 Chawand At around 8'o clock we reached our hotel in Udaipur city. Now we are heading towards Chawand. It had been the home to Maharana Pratap for the last 12 years of his life. Chawand is 2 hours from here, till then I choose to sit back and dream. Earlier while reading about Mewar, I came to know that the Mewar dynasty still continues and the present Rana is Maharana Arvind Singh. His son is Lakshara Singh and is married to a princess of a still continuing dynasty from Orissa. Looking through the window, a signboard catches my attention, it reads "Banswara" with an arrow marked in other direction and "165 km" written in white. "Which place is Banswara?" I ask, out of curiosity. "Bheels, the tribe which helped the Rana in the battle still continues to live in Banswara", says the taxi driver, who is patient enough to my intricate questions, I believe, as he replies calmly. After a pause, pointing towards a distant pla...