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M. V. Pandia — Separation of Banswara from 
[■No. 3, 
Separation of Banswara from Dungarpur State in Rajputana—By 
Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia, M.R.A.S., M.A.S.B., M.G.V.S., 
and late Prime Minister of Pratabgarh. 
[Read November 1896.] 
It is generally known that Banswara, Dungarpur, Partabgarh and 
Udaipur States are at present under the Me war Residency. They are 
all of the same Sisodia clan of Rajputs which claims to have descended 
from Rama. 
There are a good many amusing traditions being related in con¬ 
nection with the separation of Banswara from Dungarpur, but I give 
place here only to what the author of the Rajputana Gazetteer has 
written about it, taking his facts from some local chronicle, I believe. 
In this quotation all the annals have been briefly related. He says :— 
“ The Rawals of Banswara are a junior branch of that family of 
the Sisodia clan of Rajputs which is now ruling in Dungarpur, from 
which they separated about the year 1530. At that period, and for 
many years previously, the whole country, which now comprises the 
two states of Banswara and Dungarpur, was known as Bagar and was 
under the dominion of the family of the Sisodias, which still hold 
Dungarpur, though the Chief’s control over the lawless Bhils inhabiting 
the wilder part of his territory was merely nominal. Udaisingh, who 
came to power in A.D. 1509, had two sons, the elder named Prithviraj 
and the younger, Jagmal. He himself marched under his kinsman 
Rana Sanga of Citor, against the Emperor Babar, and was killed at the 
great battle of Kanwa in 1528. After his death his territory was divid¬ 
ed between his two sons, and the descendants of the two families are 
the present Chiefs of Dungarpur and Banswara. Whether this division 
was made amicably or by force is not clear. There is a tradition that 
Udaisingh ordered it to be made before he died. There is another 
legend that Jagmalsingh, his son, was left for dead on the battle-field, 
but recovered, and on returning to his country was disowned as an 
impostor. Thereupon he took refuge in the hills to the north of the 
present site of Banswara, and having collected a body of followers began 
to make incursions into his father’s territory. This asylum is still 
