Maharaja Suraj Mal

Maharaja Surajmal (1707-1763) was the visionary Jat Maharaja of Bharatpur State. His father Badan Singh made Digg his capital first and later Surajmal established the city of Bharatpur. In 1733, Surajmal invaded the battle of Khemamdar Sogariya and conquered and laid the foundation of Bharatpur city in 1743 which he resided in 1753.

Rise of Jat-power

Maharaja Surajmal was politically, visionary, beautiful, symmetrical and healthy. He also made friendship with Maharaja Jai ​​Singh of Jaipur. Jai Singh died on September 21, 1743, and soon afterwards, his sons Ishwari Singh and Madho Singh had a fight for the throne. Maharaja Surajmal was in favor of the eldest son Ishwari Singh while Maharana Jagat Singh of Udaipur was in favor of Madho Singh. Later, there was a war between the two brothers in Shippur and Ishwari Singh won in March 1747. A year later, in May 1748, the Peshwas pressed Ishwari Singh to hand over four parganas to Madhu Singh. Then the Marathas, Sisodia, Rathod, etc., the forces of seven kings became with Madoshi and Ishwar Singh fell alone. Maharaja Surajmal reached the city with ten thousand soldiers to help Ishwar Singh and defeated seven forces in August 1748, which had more than 1 lakh soldiers. But Jat Maharaj Surajmal's length of each warrior was more than 7 feet and weighing more than 150 kg. With this, Surajmal's tunes began to speak in India.

In May 1753 Maharaja Surajmal captured Firoz Shah Kotla. Nawab Ghazi-ud-Din of Delhi then incited Marathas against Surajmal and then the Marathas surrounded the Kummher fort of Surajmal in Bharatpur district from January 1754 to May 1754. Maratha could not capture the fort and Malhar Rao's son Khande Rao Holkar was killed in that fight. The Marathas were determined to kill Surajmal but the Maharani Kishori gave a treaty in Marathas and Surajmal with the help of Sindhiyas.

According to Vendel, during this period of shabby Mughal power, Jat power came emerging as a strong force in northern India. After the death of Sawai Jai Singh, in the succession war of 1748, against the power of seven kings, including Marathas and Rajputs, weak but against the power of the right party, Surajmal proved the superiority of Jat power. At the same time, no campaign of Mughals was such that Jat-Shakti was not invited to cooperate. Wazir Safdarjung was completely dependent on the power of his friend Surajmal. In 1754, the combined strength of Maratha-Mughal-Rajputs under the leadership of enemy Meerbakshi Gaziuddin Khan of the deposed Wazir Safdarjung could not even conquer Kurmhar, the small fort of Surajmal. Abdali also invited by Najibuddaula in 1757 could not destroy the power of Surajmal from his inhuman carnage. Desperate Najib again invited the Abdali to invade Hindustan again in 1759 to escape the wrath of Wazir Ghaziuddin Khan and Marathas. After the first defeat of the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat before the last battle of Panipat, the staunch enemy of Surajmal, Vazir Ghaziuddin Khan, also surrendered to the Jats. According to Wendell, 'so harsh and so precise defeat of the Mughal ego had never happened before'. In fact, the arrogant and fearsome monarch of Mughal power had dashed on the remains of which, away from the luxury and the splendor under the leadership of Maharaja Surajmal, the supporters of helplessness, the protector of the weak, the protector of the protection, the symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity, the nationalist Jat- Power was established. Differences in Maratha and Surajmal

Later, in 1760 Sadashiv Rao Bhau and Surajmal had some problems. Seeing Mathura's prophet Mosque, the brother said in anger - Surajmal, Mathura is in your possession for so many days, then how did you leave this mosque? Surajmal replied - If I was sure that I would be the king of this area all the time, then perhaps I would have hired this mosque, but what advantage? Tomorrow, if you come to Muslims, then you have to plant our temples and make mosques there, you will feel better? Afterwards, Bhau had ordered to lay down the roof of the Red Fort, the specialty of the roof, thinking that by selling this gold I will give the salaries of my soldiers. Even Surajmal refused to do so, even said that take five lakh rupees from me, but do not break it, after all, Nadir Shah also gave this roof a span. But the brother did not believe - when the ceiling of gold broke, he barely got three lakh rupees. Many things of Surajmal have not been considered by the brothers and they also say - I have not come here from the South on the strength of your strength. Maharaja Surajmal's generosity

The third battle of Panipat occurred on January 14, 1761 between the Marathas and Ahmad Shah Abdali. More than half of the Marathas killed more than one lakh soldiers. The Marathas had neither the complete ration nor the distinction of this area, what many day-long hungry soldiers would fight? If Sadashiva Rao Maharaj did not make any comment from Surajmal, he would have been a partner in this war, then today India's picture would have been different. Maharaja Surajmal still paid the right of friendship. Thirty-four thousand Marathas went back after the war, when they reached the place of Surajmal, they had a bad condition. In the wounded condition, all those hungry and thirsty were on the verge of dying and also died in the severe winter from above, even half of them had no woolen clothes. For ten days, Surajmal arranged for Rakkah, his medicines and food and clothes in Bharatpur. The Queen's teenager also appealed to the people to collect grains. I have heard that some twenty lakh rupees were spent in their service and water. As he went, he gave a rupee, a set of cereal and some clothes to every man so that he could spend the money. Some Maratha soldiers had brought their families before the fight and left them in the villages of Haryana. Their widows have not returned to their death. Later, the families got rid of the culture of Haryana. 'Dange' in Maharashtra is also said to be of Jatwans and 'Dangi' is also the branch of his own in Haryana.

After the fall of the Marathas, Maharaja Surajmal won the areas of Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Jhajjar. In 1763, he also captured Farrukhnagar. Sage of the heroes is the battleground. Maharaj Surajmal Veergati was received in the battle with Nawab Najibuddaula on 25 December 1763. Also see them

'Maharaja Surajmal': Natwar Singh: Radhakrishna Prakashan, Delhi

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