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<nowiki>'''</nowiki>Raja Ram Dayal Singh<nowiki>'''</nowiki> was a Gujjar ruler of the Landhaura riyasat in the Upper Doab region of northern India. He belonged to the Khubar clan of Gujjars and controlled extensive territories, including areas around Haridwar,Saharanpur and muzzfarnagar. Before and after the East India Company's conquest of the Upper Doab in 1803, his domain comprised approximately 900 villages, with an estimated annual revenue of at least five lakh rupees. He died in 1813, after which the British government resumed many of the villages and cancelled revenue-farming arrangements associated with his state.<ref>Dirk H. A. Kolff, <nowiki>''</nowiki>Grass in Their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793–1830<nowiki>''</nowiki>, Brill, 2010, pp. 451–466</ref> | |||
British sources referred to him as the “Raja of Haridwar.” In her travel account published in 1823, Ann Deane described Munglore as a fortified palace belonging to “Ramdial Sing, Rajah of Hurdwar.<ref>Ann Deane, A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan, 1804–1814 (1823), p. 192</ref>Raja Ram Dayal Singh of Landhaura was among the prominent chiefs of the Upper Doab during the Maratha period. A published account of General Louis Bourquin’s memoir lists “Raja Ram Dayal Gujjar” with a force of 20,000 men among the regional rulers and military contingents associated with General Perron’s forces.<ref>“Memoir of Louis Bourquien,” <nowiki>''Journal of the Panjab Historical Society''</nowiki>, vol. IX, 1923, p. 57.</ref> | |||
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'''Raja Ram Dayal Singh''' was a Gujjar ruler of the Landhaura riyasat in the Upper Doab region of northern India. He belonged to the Khubar clan of Gujjars and controlled extensive territories, including areas around Haridwar,Saharanpur and muzzfarnagar. Before and after the East India Company's conquest of the Upper Doab in 1803, his domain comprised approximately 900 villages, with an estimated annual revenue of at least five lakh rupees. He died in 1813, after which the British government resumed many of the villages and cancelled revenue-farming arrangements associated with his state.[1]
British sources referred to him as the “Raja of Haridwar.” In her travel account published in 1823, Ann Deane described Munglore as a fortified palace belonging to “Ramdial Sing, Rajah of Hurdwar.[2]Raja Ram Dayal Singh of Landhaura was among the prominent chiefs of the Upper Doab during the Maratha period. A published account of General Louis Bourquin’s memoir lists “Raja Ram Dayal Gujjar” with a force of 20,000 men among the regional rulers and military contingents associated with General Perron’s forces.[3]
References
- ↑ Dirk H. A. Kolff, ''Grass in Their Mouths: The Upper Doab of India under the Company's Magna Charta, 1793–1830'', Brill, 2010, pp. 451–466
- ↑ Ann Deane, A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindostan, 1804–1814 (1823), p. 192
- ↑ “Memoir of Louis Bourquien,” ''Journal of the Panjab Historical Society'', vol. IX, 1923, p. 57.
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