What follows is a feast of Rajasthani Dingal poetry in translation. There are few, perhaps none, as well equipped as Kesri Singh to create such translations. He is a master of Dingal and of English. His translations reflect not only his command of both languages but also his poetic imagination and fluency. It takes a poet to translate a poet.”
I hope The Story of the Battle of Haldighati — Which is as close to authentic history as can he -will be found interesting by the general reder; the essay discussing some of the Controversies Concerning the Battle, to be of some worth by serious scholars and researchers in the field of medieval Mewar history; and The Maharana and the Muse, delightful by lovers of property.
Born on June 1, 1927, he graduated from the Mayo College, Ajmer, in 1946. He was a Member of the Third Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan from 1962 to 1967, and the first General Secretary of the Swatantra Party in the State, and a couple of decades later, a Vice President of the Rajasthan State unit of the Bhartiya Janta Party.
Hiking in the high mountains of the Himalayas, observing wild life in the sanctuaries and national parks of the country, or just gazing up at the star-spangled night skies of the desert, and reading good books on History and Philosophy, Travel and Adventure, and Rajasthani Literature, have been his favourite pastimes.
Besides this present book, he has also authored “An Anthology of Rajasthani Poetry in English Translation”.
He lives in Roopawas, in the Pali District of Rajasthan.
Shri Keen Singhji of Mundiyar who was my class-mate at Mayo College, Ajmer, brought to me a narrative that he has written on the 400th anniversary of the Battle of HaIdi Ghati.
His description of the Battle, which is based on a study of eye-witness accounts as well as the works of later historians of renown, bears the impress of his own intellectual inferences. Significance should be attached to the fact that it was a fight for freedom, and not a communal war.
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