Produced by KD Weeks, Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Bold characters, used as section headings, appear delimited by ‘=’. A single instance of an superscripted ‘e’ is indicated with a preceding carat ‘^’. The text is annotated with numerous footnotes, which were numbered sequentially on each page. On occasion, a footnote itself is annotated by a note, using an asterisk as the reference. This distinction is followed here, with those ‘notes on notes’ are given alphabetic sequence (A, B, etc.). Since there are over 1500 notes in this volume, they have been gathered at each chapter’s end, and resequenced for each chapter. The notes are a combination of those of the author, and of the editor of this edition. The latter are enclosed in square brackets. Finally, the pagination of the original edition, published in the 1820’s, is preserved for ease of reference by including those page numbers in the text, also enclosed in square brackets. There are a number of references to a map, sometimes referred to as appearing in Volume I. In this edition, the MAP appears at the end of Volume III. Crooke’s plan for the renovation of the Tod’s original text, including a discussion of the transliteration of word other than English, is given in detail in the Preface. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Given the history of the text, it was thought best to leave all orthography as printed. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN [Illustration: COLONEL JAMES TOD. (From the bust by Vo. Livi, 1837. By permission of Lt.-Col. E. W. Blunt-Mackenzie, R.A.). _Frontispiece._ ] ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN OR THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN RAJPUT STATES OF INDIA BY LIEUT.-COL. JAMES TOD LATE POLITICAL AGENT TO THE WESTERN RAJPUT STATES EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM CROOKE, C.I.E. HON. D.SC. OXON., B.A., F.R.A.I. LATE OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I