Princely States of WEST UP BEFORE THE BRITISH 1700

[vij]

The area being ruled from delhi to dehradoon by the Gurjars
1.landhaura state,
2.kila parikshitgarh and
3.dadri
4.Samthar

1.Raja Ramdayal Singh Panwar--------ruler of Landhaura. It is located 15 Km from Roorkee. He built numerous ghats and dharamshala in Haridwar. He ruled over entire saharanpur, haridwar, and owned whole of eastern muzaffarnagar. he built many religious institutions on the pilgrimage route of haridwar and rishikesh.

He had treaty with the raja of Tehri garhwal in 1790's to fight with the gurkhas. they fought many battles together and did not allow the powerful gorkhas to advance into indian plains till he was alive.
During this time the east india company had not reached the western UP.they entered the saharanpur distt for the first time in 1804.

Present sucessor is MLA from Laksar in Uttarakhand. Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion

2.Raja Nain Singh Nagar--------ruler of Kila Parikshitgarh--------Meerut. he ruled over Meerut, Bijnore.he built many temples in hastinapur and suroounding areas.He rebuilt the fort of parikshitgarh of the mahabharat times.

3.Raja Umarao Singh Bhati--------ruler of Dadri--------------------Noida. He ruled over the tract from Delhi to Aligarh. He was the hero of 1857 war of independence.

4.Raja Bir Singh Judeo--------------ruler of Samthar--------------Jhansi. He ruled over the distt of Jhansi.
Present Sucessor is Ranjeet Singh Judeo who is Ex UP Home Minister and samdhi of vasundhra Raje.

[Ashok Harsana]

Behsuma was the fifth state ruled by gujjars in this area

[AP Singh]

Hi Ashok,
Here I would like to correct you. Except Samthar none of these states were princely states. Princely states was the name given to the all kind of vassals of British Empire.

Behsuma and Gohra were the Subas ( Regional Powers) of Parikshat Garh state of Gujjars Nagaras. The Gujjar fort at Parikshat Garh was dismantled in 1857, the first war of Independence. The Chaprana and Dhalia Gujjars of Panchli, the village of the Great freedom fighter Dhan Singh one of the Generals of the state having more than 1000 cavaliers. 1857 revolt is not correctly recorded ( or may be the correct version is still kept under confidential and classified information).

Similarly the the Powers of Landhora state were also reduced sustantially during the British regime alongwith the states of Holkars since both of the rulers were friendly and probabaly the Britishers did not find this firendship good for their own Empire.

[vij]

In the recently published book FORTS AND FUTURE , the GURJAR FORT of SAMTHAR is told as
The Samthar fort, “is one of the more ambitious fortifications built in the 17th Century.” Samthar was a powerful Gujjar kingdom when the Moghul Empire was disintegrating and the Marathas were gaining ground in Central India. It also flaunts pictures of intricate rock carvings from the Ajaigarh fort.

This state belonged to the Gurjar of KASANA gotra and is situated to the north west of JHANSI. The present successor is Ranjeet Singh and he is EX UP home Minister and Member of UP Congress Committee.


LINK
www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article1149565.ece

Another Link for samthar is
uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/ips/s/samthar.html

[Ashok Harsana]

Great Info

[ali]

Mr. A.P. Singh is right.Smithar was the only princely state accepted by British because in 1857 the prince was too young so the state not participated in war but state also no sided to British.
Mr. Vij is wrong as he stated Smithar rulers as Kasana. They are Khatana whose pedigree goes to the ancient ruler Raja Kaidar Rai of Present Afganistan's border area.This family was always a proud symbol for Gujjars because his family refuses the marriage propodal of Mughal King Shah Jehan. In result they face the war and kileed nearly sixty eight thousand soldiers of Mughal force but defeated. After getting defeated they move to hansi from Pawaian(now shahjehan pur or Shahjehan Abad, Saharanpur.
I not know much about the presnt of state Timli Dehradun. Anyhow states are states for us to proud even they were not accepted as princely states by British.
Mr. Ashok please wrie how many sates were before partition.

[Ashok Harsana]

1. Behsuma
2. ParikshitGarh
3. Landhora
4. Dadri
5. Samthar