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Image details : Photograph of the Palace and Tank (reservoir) at Alwar, from an album of 80 albumen prints taken by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey. The principality of Alwar is in the north-east of Rajasthan, bordering the Delhi region. Alwar town is sited in a valley overlooked by a fortress stretching along the high ridges of the Aravallis to the north-west of it. Alwar's strategic position resulted in it changing hands several times, it was fought over by the Rajputs, the Mughals and the Jats from the 10th to the 19th centuries. From this it is evident that the state of Alwar has an old history, with tradition linking it even further to the ancient kingdom of Matsya associated with the Pandava brothers of the Hindu epic 'Mahabharata'. However, the city itself is more recent, founded by the Kachhwaha Rajput prince Rao Pratap Singh of Machheri in the 1770s as the state capital. He had wrested the 10th century Bala Qila Fort from the Jats of Bharatpur who had briefly overrun it. The picture shows part of the City Palace begun in the late 18th century by Rao Pratap's successor Bhaktawar Singh, which lies below the fort and consists of a complex of many courts dating up to the 1850s, all facing a stepped rectangular reservoir with many chhattris or pavilions protruding into the water. Source : British Library

Miss Roy, the Alwar family were petty thikanedars of the Jaipur royal house, i dont know on what basis do you refer to them as "senior" to Jaipur, and that too always.

On a separate note, the latest FIBIS journal(no 25) - (www.fibis.org) -contains the biography of Major Percy William Powlett. A member of FIBIS recently presented the major's telescope to the National Army Museum in London. This had been given to Powlett by his colonel at the seige of Lucknow (1857) and the writer speculates that it may have later had more peaceful use in Powlett's exploration of the territories described in the gazetters he compiled.

Miss Roy, Raja Udaykaranji's second son, Bar Singh was the ancestor of the Alwar family, the elder son was Raja Nar Singh. Thus alwar is not senior, also, after Bara singh, the 15th generation of his line founded Alwar. They were thakurs under Jaipur till then. Kalyan Singh became the 1st Rao of Macheri under Sawai Jai Singh II in the 1700s, 7th in descent from him, Pratap Singh became the 1st Rao Raja of Alwar. Theres no need for any outsider scholar here, you know how the lineages are well known.

It seems you mean to say that Alwar was founded by the second son (whom u call senior) in the 1300s but the ruling family came up in the 1700s. (?!?) Alwar state was not self-founded. It was established by the same ruling house, the Macheri Thakur, later Rao Raja Pratap Singh was the founder of the state, there is no separate origin of the state. Hope this makes things clearer.