Lt-Col. James Tod

Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Lt-Col. James Tod’

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The Raja and the Ox-Cart Clay Lane

Vijay Singh, Raja of Jodhpur, was left to fend for himself after his army deserted him.

The Kingdom of Marwar in Jodhpur (now in Rajasthan, northwest India) was noted for insubordination towards the fading Mughal Emperors, but in the 1750s it fell under the control of the Maratha to the south, paying a high price for their help in resolving a tangled dispute over the crown.

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