On 30th April Shri Shyam Sundar Bhatt briefed 48 guides on the topic "Mewar's First Maharana : Maharana Hamir". He focused on the forts and Valleys of the Aravalli Mountains, water management, Rani Padmini, Camping of Alauddin Khilji, Rana Hamir's war with Mohammed Tuglak and other topics of the reference.

Shri Shyam Sundar Bhatt addressing the guides

Shri Shyam Sundar Bhatt and guides after the lecture session

Developments in Maharana Mewar Special Library

MMSL is a world-class special library and has a collection of more than 34564 books of different varieties till April 2018. Library has the special collection of books on Literature, Religion, History, Arts, Zoology, Sports and General Geography about different part of India and globe and rare collection of books on Mewar dynasty.

119 new books were received in the month of April 2018 and all the books were processed in Accession Register. Classification done by Dewey decimal classification 19th Rev. Edition, Cataloguing (AACR II) and Bibliography; details

uploaded in Library housekeeping software. Libsys and Eternal Mewar web site http://eternalmewar.in/mmsl. Stamping, tagging and scanning was also performed all these books.

In the month, the library added Directorate of Rajasthan States Archives Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Haroti, Pali related history, daily reports bahis, and history of rajasthan role in british period(110 Books); Rajasthan History; Rajasthan Concise History; A Descriptive list of the Bikaner Mahamakas English Record; Rajasthan through the ages 1857 ki kranti mein rajputana ka yogdan; British Period History; Inglorious empire by Shashi Tahroor; Aurangzeb: The man and the myths; Jodhpur polo; Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha(1883- 1942) (Punjab); Alibaba; Blackbook Top-50 - Most powerful fifty women of 2017; Bhagwan Swaminarain : The Story of his time; Swaminarain Hinduism : Tradition, Adaption, Identity.

Front cover of books