Udaipur (ind)

Udaipur

Udaipur ranks 5,076th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Granada Hills, Los Angeles, Neunkirchen, Saarland, and Merzig. Memorable people born in Udaipur include Ram Narayan, Daulat Singh Kothari, and Aindrita Ray. Udaipur has been the birth place of many musicians, and physicists. Udaipur is located in India.

Udaipur is a city in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, about 415 km (258 mi) south of the state capital Jaipur. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Udaipur district. It is the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar in the former Rajputana Agency. It was founded in 1559 by Udai Singh II of the Sisodia clan of Rajputs, when he shifted his capital from the city of Chittorgarh to Udaipur after Chittorgarh was besieged by Akbar. It remained as the capital city till 1818 when Mewar became a British princely state, and thereafter the Mewar province became a part of Rajasthan when India gained independence in 1947. It is also known as the City of Lakes, as it is surrounded by five major artificial lakes. Read more on Wikipedia