IIn the grand halls of Udaipur’s City Palace, where the rustling of silk curtains and the tinkling of medieval utensils echo the voices of Maharanas of yesteryear, a modern saga of inheritance and litigation is unfolding. Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, the 41-year-old scion of the Mewar dynasty, is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with his own sisters over the will of their late father Arvind Singh – a dispute that threatens to tear not only the family apart, but one of Rajasthan’s most historically and economically important royal properties.