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'''Dhar''' or '''Dhad''' is a [[guerrilla warfare]] tactic used in [[India]]n history. Maharana Pratap was first Indian king who used guerrilla warfare in organized form. The north Indian [[Hindu]] [[Khap]]s employed the tactic against invading Muslim armies (such as [[Mahmud of Ghazni]], [[Timur]], [[Ahmad Shah Durrani|Ahmad Shah Abdali]]) and later by [[Jat people|Jat]]s, [[Rajput]]s ([[Maharana Pratap]] and [[Rana Sanga]]), [[Sikh]] ([[Bhangi Misl]] of [[Dhillon]] Jat Sikhs, [[Guru Gobind Singh]] and [[Banda Singh Bahadur]]) and [[Maratha]]s against [[Mughal emperors|Mughals]].<ref name="sarkar">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Jadunath|title=Fall of the Mughal Empire: 1789-1803|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32029|year=1934|publisher=Sarkar & Sons|location=Calcutta|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32029/page/n448 426]}}</ref> [[Gokula]] [[Raja Ram Jat]] successfully used ''Dhar'' guerrilla tactics in the 1680s against [[Aurangzeb]]'s larger Mughal forces.<ref name="sarkar" /><br />
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