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As soon as you glimpse the Deogarh
Mahal, you can see that its rulers must have been serious players in the
Mewar aristocracy, their magnificent fort a fitting stronghold for one
of its sixteen “umraos” - the most senior feudal barons attending
on the Maharana of Udaipur. Even so, you might not necessarily guess that
the Rawats of Deogarh (a local title equivalent to “Raja”)
once ruled over the fourth largest "jagir" in all of Rajasthan.
At its most extensive, their territory comprised some 210 villages, with
one of their defensive forts as far as 100 kms away. Yet there is little
ostentation and even less gold to be found in their palace. Like most
of the Mewar nobility, they spent too much time fighting to have much
to spare for amassing great wealth.
And yet if one of their ancestors, had had a better sense of humour, the
throne of Mewar might even have been theirs…
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