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THAKUR SRI JESSRAJSINGHJI SEESODIA

THE RAJPUTS: A FIGHTING RACE


Estimate: Rs 20,000-Rs 25,000 ( $280-$350 )


The Rajputs: A Fighting Race


Thakur Sri Jessrajsinghji Seesodia, The Rajputs: A Fighting Race. A Short Account of the Rajput Race, its Warlike Past, its Early Connections with Great Britain, and its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front, London: East and West Ltd., 1915

xi, 164 pages, frontispiece, 58 plates, 5 in colour, 3 maps; khaki cloth binding with gilt titles spine and upper board, gilt margins to upper board. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed
10.1 x 7.5 in (25 x 18.7 cm)

With a foreword by General Sir O' Moore Creagh, ex commander-in-Chief, India. Published during the First World War to raise funds for the widows and children of Indian soldiers killed, this book provides a general account of the Rajputs and their military exploits with a chapter on biographies of some leading Rajput rulers. Most of the illustrations are portraits of these Rajput rulers.

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