Sisodia
Sisodia ( Hindi सिसोदिया ), also Sesodia, Shishodia, Shishodya, Sisodya, Sisodhya or Sisodiya, is the name of an Indian Rajput -Fürstengeschlechts from Rajasthan , the n. Chr since the 8th century. To the dismissal of the prince in 1956 the rulers of Mewar set, initially based in Chittorgarh , from 1568 in Udaipur . Like some other Rajput clans, u. a. the Rathor of Jodhpur , they derive their origin from the legendary Suryavansha (Sanskrit सूर्यवंश) sun dynasty of the Puranas , which refers to the god Rama as the progenitor.
After some heroic resistance, the Sisodia accepted the supremacy of the Muslims, especially the Mughal emperors of Delhi , but - unlike the other Rajput families - did not enter into any marriage relations with the conquerors. With the help of bards , they cultivated a distinctive elite cult and still claim a position of priority among the Indian nobility.
Name bearer
- Arvind Singh Mewar (* 1944), 76th heir to the throne of the Mewar dynasty
literature
- Barbara N. Ramusack: The Indian Princes and their States . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004 [ND 2008] (The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. 3,6)
- James Tod: Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan or, the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India . With a preface by Douglas Sladen. 2 vol. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal 2001. Reprint of the 1914 edition, exp. u. corr. Edition of Tod's first three-volume edition from the years 1829–1832