Picturesque Udaipur (1939)

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• 1939

A large lake is adjacent to the historic city of Udaipur in Western India. The lake is connected to a legend of a Maharana and a beautiful dancing woman and tightrope walker, whose lake grave-site is commemorated. Named after Udai Singh, Udaipur is one of twenty or more independent states in the area known as Rajputana. The lake also plays an important role in the day to day lives of the town's residents, each individual caste's place along the lake separated by walls. Caste and gender also factor into the labor conducted in the area. In the center of the city, the daily street life includes free roaming cows, musicians, and fabric dyers whose color of choice is red. In the suburbs each evening, the wild boars are fed, they who are considered sacred. The Hindu temple and the Maharana's palace are the focus of the city, highlighting the importance of religion and history in the culture of the people there.