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<TABLE cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=3 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="1%" height=127></TD><TD width="183%" height=127>Raja Suraj Mal (1707-1763)
Raja Suraj Mal was about 55 years old at the time of his death. He had virtually exercised the sole management of the affairs of the State for over twenty years before and after the death of Badan Singh. By his four wives, he left five sons: Jawahir Singh, Ratan Singh, Nawal Singh, Ranjit Singh and Nahar Singh. The first two were born of a lady, popularly reputed to have been a Rajputni, possibly of Gaurua caste, the third was the son of a Malin (gardener class) mother, the last two were born of the women of his own tribe. But the mother of none of these enjoyed the particular affection of the old Jajah, who loved most dearly his masculine and barren wife the famous queen Rani Kishori, popularly called Hansia. Jawahir was fortunate enough to be adopted by this lady, whose influence and affection shielded the rebellious youth from the worst effects of :-
Wendel says four; but it is a common fact of history supported by the authority of Persian histories that Ranjit Singh, who succeeded his brother Fajah Nawal Singh, was also a son of Suraj Mal. This makes the number five. The narrative of Wendel though extremely valuable as a contemporary history, is vitiated by some inaccuracies about well-known facts.
Col.Tod says that Jawahir and Ratan Singh were born of a wife of Koormi caste (an agricultural tribe inferior to the Jats). But father Wendel, who lived at the Court of Jawahir Singh, and knew him intimately asserts that they born of a wife of the Core caste. Elsewhere he adds, "There are men who claim that the Corees are a little more noble than the Jats, and that they are a species of decayed Rajputs, either fallen into decadence or mixed, but always one degree higher than the Jats as regards their extraction". This exactly tallies with the notice of the Gaurua caste, whom Sir H.M.Elliot calls "an inferior clan of Rajputs". The another of Imad-ud-Saadat maintains that Jawahir's mother was a Rajputtni
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Maharajah Sawai Jawahir Singh Bharatendra
After the death of Suraj Mal, the baronial party, headed by Balaram, brother of Rani Hansia proceeded to place Nahar Singh on the gadi of Bharatpur, as desired by the late Rajah. But one bold and well-judged stroke of Jawahir's policy brought about a dramatic change of the situation. He sent a messenger from Farrukhnagar with a stern warning to his brother and the nobles, reproaching them with cowardice and unworthy scramble for gain. This was on season, so they were told, to think of giving successor to the illustrious dead but to exert themselves to propitiate his departed soul, crying for his slaver's blood. He would not claim at present, he said, his own birth right, but would go with the small force that remained with him against the enemy, and afterwards see who deserved most to succeed his father. This threat disconcerted the chiefs and so dismayed Nahar Singh, by nature timid and cowardly, that he fled the following night. With his family and partisans, he retreated to Dholpur to wait for a more favorable time to recover his legacy. Balaram gave up all hopes of resisting Jawahir's claim to the throne and thought it prudent to submit. Jawahir Singh returned to Deeg, and was installed there as master and sovereign of the Jat territory
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Rajah Ratan Singh Jat
The glory of the Jats departed with Rajah Jawahir Singh and confusion fell on their kingdom when his iron grip on longer held the tribe together. His younger brother Ratan Singh, an imbecile and profligate youth, succeeded him, and reigned, according to the author of Imad-us-Saadat, for ten months and thirteen days. The few months of his rule were uneventful and spent wholly in ignoble diversions. Four thousand dancing girls surrounded his person; with them he started, a few days after his accession, for Brindaban to enjoy the rainy season there in gay revelry. All the scenes of the mythic past were acted once again by this reputed descendant of the Divine Lover of Braj, perhaps in a more magnificent manner. He never returned to his capital; his life tragically ended there at the hand of a Gosain named Rupanand
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Nawal Singh
A mutilated State, a factious nobility, a demoralized army, a depleted treasury and an anticipated revenue were the legacy of the civil war to Nawal Singh who now became the de facto Rajah of Bharatpur, though nominally a Regent for his infant nephew Kheri Singh. Prospects abroad were equally gloomy for him. The interregnum at Delhi had come to an end. The exiled Emperor Shah Alam II re-entered the imperial city in Nov. 1771. Though the Emperor was weak, incapable and vacillating, the empire showed signs of recovery under the able administration of Mirza Najaf Khan, the last of the great foreigners who graced the Court of the Timurids. With the re-establishment of the legitimate authority of the Mughal Emperor, the Jat Rajah stood revealed as the arch rebel and usurper. The dispossessed Muslim Jagirdars of the Doab and Hariana, the shaikzadas of Mewat-whom Suraj Mal had expelled from their estates, looked up to the Emperor to restore their rights to them.
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Raja Suraj Mal was about 55 years old at the time of his death. He had virtually exercised the sole management of the affairs of the State for over twenty years before and after the death of Badan Singh. By his four wives, he left five sons: Jawahir Singh, Ratan Singh, Nawal Singh, Ranjit Singh and Nahar Singh. The first two were born of a lady, popularly reputed to have been a Rajputni, possibly of Gaurua caste, the third was the son of a Malin (gardener class) mother, the last two were born of the women of his own tribe. But the mother of none of these enjoyed the particular affection of the old Jajah, who loved most dearly his masculine and barren wife the famous queen Rani Kishori, popularly called Hansia. Jawahir was fortunate enough to be adopted by this lady, whose influence and affection shielded the rebellious youth from the worst effects of :-
Wendel says four; but it is a common fact of history supported by the authority of Persian histories that Ranjit Singh, who succeeded his brother Fajah Nawal Singh, was also a son of Suraj Mal. This makes the number five. The narrative of Wendel though extremely valuable as a contemporary history, is vitiated by some inaccuracies about well-known facts.
Col.Tod says that Jawahir and Ratan Singh were born of a wife of Koormi caste (an agricultural tribe inferior to the Jats). But father Wendel, who lived at the Court of Jawahir Singh, and knew him intimately asserts that they born of a wife of the Core caste. Elsewhere he adds, "There are men who claim that the Corees are a little more noble than the Jats, and that they are a species of decayed Rajputs, either fallen into decadence or mixed, but always one degree higher than the Jats as regards their extraction". This exactly tallies with the notice of the Gaurua caste, whom Sir H.M.Elliot calls "an inferior clan of Rajputs". The another of Imad-ud-Saadat maintains that Jawahir's mother was a Rajputtni
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Maharajah Sawai Jawahir Singh Bharatendra
After the death of Suraj Mal, the baronial party, headed by Balaram, brother of Rani Hansia proceeded to place Nahar Singh on the gadi of Bharatpur, as desired by the late Rajah. But one bold and well-judged stroke of Jawahir's policy brought about a dramatic change of the situation. He sent a messenger from Farrukhnagar with a stern warning to his brother and the nobles, reproaching them with cowardice and unworthy scramble for gain. This was on season, so they were told, to think of giving successor to the illustrious dead but to exert themselves to propitiate his departed soul, crying for his slaver's blood. He would not claim at present, he said, his own birth right, but would go with the small force that remained with him against the enemy, and afterwards see who deserved most to succeed his father. This threat disconcerted the chiefs and so dismayed Nahar Singh, by nature timid and cowardly, that he fled the following night. With his family and partisans, he retreated to Dholpur to wait for a more favorable time to recover his legacy. Balaram gave up all hopes of resisting Jawahir's claim to the throne and thought it prudent to submit. Jawahir Singh returned to Deeg, and was installed there as master and sovereign of the Jat territory
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Rajah Ratan Singh Jat
The glory of the Jats departed with Rajah Jawahir Singh and confusion fell on their kingdom when his iron grip on longer held the tribe together. His younger brother Ratan Singh, an imbecile and profligate youth, succeeded him, and reigned, according to the author of Imad-us-Saadat, for ten months and thirteen days. The few months of his rule were uneventful and spent wholly in ignoble diversions. Four thousand dancing girls surrounded his person; with them he started, a few days after his accession, for Brindaban to enjoy the rainy season there in gay revelry. All the scenes of the mythic past were acted once again by this reputed descendant of the Divine Lover of Braj, perhaps in a more magnificent manner. He never returned to his capital; his life tragically ended there at the hand of a Gosain named Rupanand
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Nawal Singh
A mutilated State, a factious nobility, a demoralized army, a depleted treasury and an anticipated revenue were the legacy of the civil war to Nawal Singh who now became the de facto Rajah of Bharatpur, though nominally a Regent for his infant nephew Kheri Singh. Prospects abroad were equally gloomy for him. The interregnum at Delhi had come to an end. The exiled Emperor Shah Alam II re-entered the imperial city in Nov. 1771. Though the Emperor was weak, incapable and vacillating, the empire showed signs of recovery under the able administration of Mirza Najaf Khan, the last of the great foreigners who graced the Court of the Timurids. With the re-establishment of the legitimate authority of the Mughal Emperor, the Jat Rajah stood revealed as the arch rebel and usurper. The dispossessed Muslim Jagirdars of the Doab and Hariana, the shaikzadas of Mewat-whom Suraj Mal had expelled from their estates, looked up to the Emperor to restore their rights to them.
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