History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c82.s5: § 8. Gopal Singh Chandawat.
History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c82.s5
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§ 8. Gopal Singh Chandawat.
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Rao Gopal Singh Chandawat, the zamindar of Rampura in Malwa, was serving in the Emperor's army in the Deccan. He had sent his son Ratan Singh home to manage his affairs. This wicked youth made himself master of the zamindari, drove out his father's agents, and stopped sending the revenue to Gopal Singh. The Emperor paid no heed to the father's complaints; Ratan Singh became a convert to Islam, through Mukhtar Khan the governor of Malwa, and thus secured from the Emperor the grant of his ancestral estate, which was newly named Islampura! At the news of it, Gopal Singh left the Mughal army, returned home, and tried to raise a body of men for recovering Rampura (June 1700). But the Malwa governor's forces, assisted by Ratan Singh, marched against him, and he had to flee into the territory of Udaipur (Feb. 1701.) [*Dil.* ii. 130*a* ; *Akh.*]
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∗ Orme MSS. 126. Dharamgaon to Surat, 18 Nov. 1684. Here Gangaram is spoken of as a "Rajput belonging to the Rana." Bhimsen adds that he was then going to the Deccan in order to win a mansab by fighting for the Emperor. Akhbarat, year 40, records on 5 May 1696, "Gangaram Dawa, son of Chand Bundela, reported as looting the zamindari of Urchha." This was a different man.
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But the Maharana could do nothing for him, and at last Gopal Singh in despair made his submission to the Emperor. He was introduced with his wrists tied together like a captive's, but was ordered to be unbound, restored to his mansab, and appointed faujdar of Kaulas (in Haidarabad) ; but his ancestral estate was not given back to him. [*Dil.* 145*b*. and *Akh.*]
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Early in 1706, Gopal Singh again fell into extreme poverty, on his being deprived of the faujdari of Kaulas. He then joined the Marathas for a living, [*Akh.* 5*a*], and accompanied them in the sack of Baroda in the month of March in that year. [*Ibid.* 156*a*.]