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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Raja of Talcher 1846/1873}}<br />
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{{infobox royalty<br />
| name = Dayanidhi Birabar Harichandan<br />
| title = [[Raja]]<br />
| succession = [[Raja]] of [[Talcher State|Talcher]]<br />
| reign = {{circa|1846}} – {{circa|1873}}<br />
| predecessor = [[Bhagirath Birabar]]<br />
| successor = [[Ramchandra Birabar Harichandan|Ramchandra Birabar]]<br />
| birth_date = {{circa|1801}}<br />
| death_date = {{circa|1873}}<br />
| house = {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Talcher_Princely_State.svg}} [[Talcher State|Talcher]]<br />
| dynasty = [[Gajapati Empire|Gajapati]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Dayanidhi Birabar Harichandan''' was the [[Raja]] of [[Talcher State|Talcher]] from 1846 until his death in 1873.<br />
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== Reign ==<br />
He helped the British troops in 1847 to quell the rebellion of the [[Raja]] of [[Angul district|Angul]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Playne |first=Somerset |url=https://archive.org/details/bengalassambehar00some/ |title=Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce, and industrial resources |date=2012 |publisher=New Delhi : Asian Educational Services |others=Public Resource |isbn=978-81-206-1964-7 |pages=600}}</ref> In recognition of this, the [[British government of India|British Government]] conferred upon him the title of Mahendra Bahadur, along with the gift of a Khilat and an elephant.<ref name=":1" /> He performed [[somayajna]], which lasted for twenty-one days in 1854.<ref name=":0" /> At the conclusion of the [[yajna]], he was bestowed with the title of [[Rajarshi]].<ref name=":0" /> When the [[Orissa famine of 1866]] occurred, he took prompt and comprehensive measures to provide sustenance for his subjects.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Senapati |first=Nilamani |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3130/ |title=Orissa District Gazetteers: Dhenkanal |publisher=Superintendent, Orissa Government Press |year=1972 |location=Cuttack |pages=59–60}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
He had three wives and two concubines.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Mishra |first=D. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8GXSR0SiF8C |title=People's Revolt in Orissa: A Study of Talcher |date=1998 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-7156-739-3 |pages=54,76,80,110 |language=en}}</ref> He had given his concubines two villages.<ref name=":0" /> He devoted most of his time to studying scriptures and religious texts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Prasad Mishra |first=Debi |date=April 1991 |editor-last=Mohapatra |editor-first=T.N. |editor2-last=Narayan Patnaik |editor2-first=Dr. Jitendra |editor3-last=Biswal |editor3-first=Bibekananda |title=The Rulers of Talcher |url=https://archive.org/details/orissa-review-1991-04/ |journal=Orissa Review |publisher=Information & Public Relations Department, Government of Orissa |publication-place=Bhubaneswar |publication-date=April 1999 |volume=XLVII |issue=9 |pages=53 |issn=0970-8669}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died in 1873 and was succeeded by [[Ramchandra Birabar Harichandan]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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