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<div>{{short description|Prime Minister of Hyderabad}}<br />
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| title = Raja, Pratapwant Bahadur<br />
| succession = [[File:Asafia flag of Hyderabad State.png|33x30px]] [[Prime Minister of Hyderabad|Prime Minister of the Hyderabad]]<br />
| image = Vitthal Sundar's Samadhi.JPG<br />
| caption =Samadhi (memorial commemorating the dead) of Vitthal Sundar Parashurami<br />
| alt = a 5 foot square, castle-like white tomb of stone blocks<br />
| name = Vitthal Sundar Parshurami<br />
| predecessor = Basalat Jung<br />
| successor = Musa Khan Nawab Rukn ud-Daula<br />
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| death_date = 10 August 1763<br />
| death_place = [[Rakshasbhuvan]] {{small|(present day in [[Beed district]], [[Maharashtra]])}}<br />
| father = Sundar Narayan Parshurami<br />
| years_active = <br />
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| reign = 8 July 1762 - 10 August 1763<br />
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'''Vitthal Sundar Parshurami''' (also '''Vithal Sundar''') (died 10 August 1763), was a diplomat and the [[List of Prime Ministers of Hyderabad State|Prime Minister of Hyderabad]] (or ''Diwan'') during the reign of [[Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II|Nizam Ali Khan]] (Asaf Jah II). When Khan was appointed Subedar of the Deccan on 8 July 1762 he immediately appointed Sunder his Diwan and conferred upon him the title ''Raja Pratapwant''.<ref>{{cite book | title=Hyderabad, 400 Glorious Years| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ixuAAAAMAAJ| author=K. Chandraiah| publisher=K. Chandraiah Memorial Trust| year=1998| page=73}}</ref> Sunder belonged to the [[Deshastha Brahmin]] community of [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{cite book | title=New History of the Marathas: The Expansion of the Maratha Power, 1707-1772| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CAIAQAAIAAJ| author=Govind Sakharam Sardesai (rao bahadur)| publisher=Phoenix Publications| year=1948| page=468}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: P-Z| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tW_eEVbVxpEC| author=Tony Jaques| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| year=2007| page=838}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Battle of Kharda: Challenges and Responses| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrxAAAAAMAAJ| author1=G. T. Kulkarni| author2=M. R. Kantak| publisher=Deccan College, Post-Graduate & Research Institute| year=1980| page=43}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Journal of the University of Bombay, Volume 27| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFlwAAAAIAAJ| page=12| publisher=University of Bombay| year=1958}}</ref> Sundar was Nizam's commander-in-chief during the [[Battle of Rakshasbhuvan]] on 10 August 1763, and was killed in the battle.<ref>{{cite book | title=The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Maratha Supremacy| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXtDAAAAYAAJ| page=829| author=Ramesh Chandra Majumdar| publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan| year=1977}}</ref><br />
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