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For the journey to England, Madho Singh chartered a ship which was fitted with large copper vats containing sufficient Ganges water to sustain him and his retinue of 400 followers throughout both sea passages and whilst in England.
It's the Spring of 1680, the concluding day of the 18-day long celebrations that follow the festival of Holi, Mewar is roused and engrossed in festivities while the Maharana of Mewar, Rana Raj Singh takes a force of a thousand men and storms outside of his capital Udaipur...
The year was 1841, a little more than a century before the Kingdom of Jammu & Kashmir acceded to the Indian Union. Under the liege of Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal, an ambitious Rajput general by the name of Zorawar Singh Kahluria crusaded to liberate Mount Kailash.
And so was the Hadi Rani described in the couplet from a poem etched out from the collective conscious of the people hearing of her valour for generations.
Maharaja Ranbir Singh was second of the Dogra Rajput rulers of Jammu & Kashmir and succeeded his father Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal, the founder of the Kingdom of Jammu & Kashmir, after the latter's abdication of throne due to old age and illness.
It interrupts again, as a shadow approaches riding another steed through the flames of dust, the hooves of whose glow, as they spark like ambers on the hard flint rock...