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Komal gupta

15/02/22 14:40 PM IST

Source: PIB

Maharaja Surajmal

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The Prime Minister pays tributes to Maharaja Surajmal on his Jayanti.

Maharaja Surajmal

  • Maharaja Suraj Mal or Sujan Singh was a Hindu Jat ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan was born in 1707.
  • Under him, the Jat rule covered present-day Delhi and districts of Agra, Aligarh, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Hathras, Kanpur, Mathura, Meerut, and Muzaffarnagar.
  • Modern historians describe him as “the Plato of the Jat tribe” and “Jat Odysseus”, because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear vision.
  • Lohagarh Fort was built in the 18th century by Raja Suraj Mal and is the only fort in India that no one in history has won.
  • After the defeat of the Marathas by the Afghans in the Third Battle of Panipat, Maharaja Suraj Mal gave food and shelter to thousands of Maratha survivors and received them with tender warmth and hospitality, giving free rations to every Maratha soldier or camp follower.
  • Suraj Mal was killed in an ambush by the Rohilla troops in December 1763 near Hindon River, Delhi.

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