Infinity in Mewar

Travelling with Jorge Luis Borges in the Mewar region of Rajasthan is to discover parallels and paradoxes of history, across time, space, and infinity. Maharana Raj Singh, the Custodian of Mewar from 1652 to 1680 CE, planned and built Rajsamand, one of the biggest man-made freshwater lakes of its time; he ordered court historians, poets, and genealogists to install the largest set of inscriptions on marble detailing the history of Mewar and its Maharanas on the lake-front