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Prime Minister pays tributes to Maharaja Surajmal on his Jayanti

MAHARAJA SURAJMAL

WHO –  Hindu Jat ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan

BORN –1707

OTHER DETAILS

• His kingdom covered present-day Delhi and districts of Agra, Aligarh, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Hathras, Kanpur, Mathura, Meerut, and Muzaffarnagar.
• Describe as “the Plato of the Jat tribe” and “Jat Odysseus”
• Built Lohagarh Fort in the 18th century – only fort in India that no one in history has won.
• 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 after their defeat of the Marathas by the Afghans in the Third Battle of Panipat

DEATH – Killed in an ambush by the Rohilla troops in December 1763 near Hindon River, Delhi.