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    Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 04:11
The Gurjar Samrat Dev Pal was last Hindu Emperor of India. He was killed by Rawat Allat, one of his own vassal of Chittor. The ancestors of Rawal Allat, Bappa Rawal, who was a small chieftain eralier, was given Chittor to rule by Gujjar Parmars on behalf of their Gujjar overlords, when Gujjar Pratihars moved out of Malwa (Ujjain), to their new capital Kannauj, the Malwa was given to Gujjar Parmars and Chittor was given Bappa Rawal, of Guhila gotra of Gujjars.
 
When in 953 AD the Gujjar Chauhans of Sakambri, a fuedatory king of Gujjar Pratihars captured Salwan, a Gujjar of Tanwar gotra, another fuedatory of Gujjar Pratihars, King Dev Pal went to Sakambri in person to release Salwan.
 
While he was returning he was killed by his own Vassal Allat. This happened because he was not suspecting his own Vassal who was appointed by Gujjar Parmars for personal security.
 
Here are the Historical details and evidences and sequential description of the events.
 
"Delhi was founded by Gujjar Tanwars (Tuars,Toors, Tomar) in 736AD. The earliest reference Of Gujjar Tanwars is found in an inscription at Pehowa, ancient Prithudaka, in Karnal district of present day Haryana of the reign of Gujjar Pratihar king MahendraPal I of Kannuaj. It states that their was a king Juala of the Gujjar Tanwar dynasty who obtained prosperity by looking after the affairs of Gujjar Pratihar king. The Gujjar Chauhan king Guaka II of Sakambri,the Son of Gujjar Chauhan king Chandan killed Gujjar Tanwar king Rudrena in the battle. The foundation of the religious buildings at Pushkar were laid by the wife of Gujjar Chauhan king Chandan at that point of time. At that time all the kings like Gujjar Tanwars of Delhi, Gujjar parmars of Malwa,Gujjar Chauhans of Sakambri, Gujjar Solankis of Patan, Gujjar Guhilots of Mewar, Gujjar Chandels of Bundelkhand were the Fuedatories (Samants) of Gujjar Pratihars overlords. The other Non Gujjar fuedatories of Gujjars were Rathores, Kalchuris, Kachwahas etc. etc. foundation of the religious buildings at Pushkar were laid by the wife of Gujjar Chauhan king Chandan at that point of time. The Son and successor of Gujjar Chauhan Guaka was Vakpatiraja I who ruled in the first quarter of tenth century and he stated to have harrased TantraPal who was on his way to Anant Gochara (seems to be country near Sikar) with a message of his overlord, the Gujjar Pratihars of kannaj. This statement makes it clear that at this point of the Gujjar Chauhans acquired enough power to defy the authority of Gujjar Pratihars the overlords of all kings of india. Gujjar Chauhan VakpatiRaj built a Shiva temple at Pushkar. He had three sons Simharaja, Vatsraja and Lakshmana. Laksman founded a kingdom at Naddulla, in southren Marwar where his sucessors ruled for several centuries.Simhraja atscended the throne after Vakpati raja. He defeated the Gujjar Tomar general named Salvan and put in to prison a number of Gujjar Tanwars princes. In order to liberate them, the Gujjar Pratihar king of Kannauj the Devpal came to the house of Gujjar Chauhan at Sakambri in person. This was obviously to resolve the issue amicably between to Gujjar clans, the Chauhans and Tanwars and the Tanwar prices were freed by the Chauhan) Subsequently the Simraja who ruled in the third quarter of tenth century freed his territories from the suzerainty of the Gujjar Pratihars who had about the time lost their imperial position. He is the first among the Gujjar Chahaman kings to assume the title of Maharajadhiraj. He granted a number of villages to the temple of Harshnath, which was constructed in AD 956 and lies near the village of harshnath about seven miles of Sikar. The Gujjar Tanwars continued to rule Haryan till the middle of twelfth century when they were overthrown by Gujjar Chauhan king Vishaladev ( The famous Beesal Dev). King Beesal Dev was the real brother of Mandalji, the grandfarher of God DevNarayan. Mandalji built a big water tank ant Mandalgarh near Bhilwara, which is still there. PrthiviRaj Chauhan was born in this branch of Gujjar Chauhans with Gujjar Tanwar mother, a princes of Delhi and thus became the king of Delhi since his maternal grandfather Anangpal, the Gujjar Tanwar king of Delhi had no son and adopted his grandson Prithviraj Chauhan.<!-/Text-!>
 


After the sack of Delhi Muhammad Ghori appointed Kootubudin Aibak, a slave, as his viceroy of Delhi and left for Ghor. Kootubudin placed one "Gola" (Salve, born from Gujjar Chauhan prince with slave mother) upon the throne of Ajmer mistaking this of the last appellation of the natural brother of the last Hindu Gujjar Chauhan King.  This Gola could not claim that he was a Gujjar since he was not born from a Gujjar mother and hence informed that he is a Rajput (which is a true statement since he was son of king but not from the queen). This fact is recorded by Ferrista, a Muslim scholar and translated by Dow.  

    


The Gurjar Emperor Dev Pal (948-953) while returning from the house of Gujjar Chauhans at Sakambri, was killed on the way back to kannauj by Rawal ALLAT of guhilot dynasty of Chittor, who was a fuedatory king of Gujjar Pratihars.

This was probably done because Rawat Allat may have formed a secret alliaance with Gujjar Chauhans of Sakambri and was put by Gujjar Parmars security of the Samrat Dev Pal. 

Rawat Allat had to pay for this treachury and he was immedaitely put to death by the Gujjar Parmar king Munja of Malwa, his direct lord and another fuedatory of the Gujjar Pratihars. After this event not only that the Guhilas were driven out of Chittor and no body from this dynasty was allowed to rule for long period to come but his children were relocated at Ahar and hence a new branch of Guhilots, the Ahrias emerged.It was Gujjar parmars of Malwa who were given to rule this territory on behalf of the Gujjar Pratihars overlords later.Hence the Chittor which was given to Bappa Rawal,to rule, by Gujjar Parmars( The mother of Bappa Rawal was from Gujjar Parmar gotra and Guhilas are from the Gujjar Solankis of Gujarat), on behalf of their Gujjar Pratihars overlords was taken back in 954 by the death of Rawat Allat. It was only after a long gap of 310 years the Guhilots were able to get back to Chittor from Ahar.

After the fall of Gujjar Pratihar empire in 1018, another clan of Gujjars from Gujrat, the Solankis defeated the Gujjar Parmars of Malwa and Chittor was taken by Sid Raj Jai Singh Solanki from Parmars and Guhilots became the Fuedatories of this Gujjar clan afterwards till the dynasties of these premier Gujjar clans, like Chauhans,Solankis,Chandilas,Parmars etc. came to an end. That was made possible due to infighting among themselves and constant attacks in series by Muslim invaders. This infighting of various Gujjar clans gave the opportunity to the various Muslim invaders get some foothold at this point of time but it was only when all these fuedatories of the Greatest empire of India- the Gujjar empire asserted independence, these invaders became successful by exploiting the situation and fighting only one clan of Gujjars at a time, like Gujjar Chandilas, Gujjar Solankis, Gujjar Chauhans etc,

The Founder of this Gujjar Solanki dynasty of Patan, who ruled over Chittor later was Mulraj Solanki who was appointed as a fuedatory king of Gujjar Pratihars by the Emperor Mahi Pal in 941, just one year before of his death.

This fact of history can be seen at the follwing site. However this site will certainly hide their status as the fuedatory of third rank to Gujjar Pratihar rank since that was the job of their bards, who were paid handsome amount of money to avoid such references.

http://www.mewarindia.com/ency/11.html
Rawal ALLAT 951-953 : Possibly near start of reign, Allat driven from Chittor by Paramara king of Malwa, Munja Raja who rules Chittor followed by nephew Raja Bhoj. Allat establishes new capital at ancient Ahar. 953, death of Allat. (No successor for 8 years while Paramaras attack Ahar. 961, Paramara king Vakpati Raj of Malwa rules Chittor).

Also see the Mewar's Lost Generations for further confirmation of this fact at the following site though the fact is hidden in this site.Actually the mother of Bappa Rawal was from Parmar clan of Gujjars and when the Gujjar pratihars moved from Malwa, the Gujjar Parmars were appointed as fuedatory king of Malwa by them and Bappa Rawal who was a chieftain under Mori prince till that time was appointed as vassal of Chittor through the Gujjar Parmars, the fuedatory of Gujjar pratihars of second rank.

http://mewarindia.com/ency/mew.html

For a period of about three hundred and ten years, the records of Mewar's history are vague to non-existent, apart from a chronological list of the rulers and the years of their reign. However, it is known that Mewar's capital, Chittor, was invaded, possibly by Paramaras from Malwa retaking their ancient capital, which was taken from them by Bappa Rawal in 734. It is also known that Ahar, the ancient southern city (now an eastern suburb of Udaipur) became the new capital for many generations. It is also known that Chittor was finally redeemed, but by whom or when is also unclear (most likely it was Jaitra Singh).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 04:22
From what I have read it seems Harshvardhan was the last Hindu Emperor of India.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 05:09
Harsha was not the last hindu ruler of India as his reign ends in 647 CE, while Gurjars kept ruling the subcontinent till 13th CE.
 
Though PrithviRaj was also a Hindu ruler but he was only limited to delhi and nearby area. While Gurjar Dev Pal Pratihar was correcctly called the last Hindu emperor as he was from the Royal dynasty (Gurjar-Pratihar)which was considered the highest and most powerful by all other rulers of India. All of the rulers were either feudatory to Gurjar-pratihars or were crushed by them. Their kingdom was much bigger than that of Harshavardhna. After the fall of Pratihars Gurjars nation divided into various petty states busy fighting with each other...And the invaders soon captured the country...
 
 
 
 


Edited by ashokharsana - 18-Apr-2007 at 05:10
The Real Ranas, The Real Emperors of India. http://ashokharsana.proboards107.com/index.cgi?board=gurjars
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 05:16
Originally posted by ashokharsana

Harsha was not the last hindu ruler of India as his reign ends in 647 CE, while Gurjars kept ruling the subcontinent till 13th CE.
 
Though PrithviRaj was also a Hindu ruler but he was only limited to delhi and nearby area. While Gurjar Dev Pal Pratihar was correcctly called the last Hindu emperor as he was from the Royal dynasty (Gurjar-Pratihar)which was considered the highest and most powerful by all other rulers of India. All of the rulers were either feudatory to Gurjar-pratihars or were crushed by them. Their kingdom was much bigger than that of Harshavardhna. After the fall of Pratihars Gurjars nation divided into various petty states busy fighting with each other...And the invaders soon captured the country...
 
Thanx for the reply Ashok.How big was Samrat Dev Pal Pratihar's domain.It would be great if you could post a map.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2007 at 06:56
 
1. In 951AD Emperor Dev Pal was ruling India. From the following records prove that his armies were in full control of the area around the Multan, the city presently in pakistan.
 
http://www.bharatvani.org/books/hhrmi/ch2.htm

Arab travellers to India of the 10th century all speak of only two independent Arab principalities with Multan and Mansurah as their capitals. The Pratihara kings waged constant war against the Arab prince of Multan, and with the Mussalmans, his subjects on the frontier. Multan would have been lost by the Arabs but for a Hindu temple. Dr. Misra quotes Al-Istakhri who wrote about AD 951 that in Multan there is an idol held in great veneration by the Hindus and every year people from distant parts undertake pilgrimages to it When the Indians make war upon them and endeavour to seize the idol, the inhabitants [Arabs] bring it out pretending that they will break it and burn it. Upon this the Indians retire, otherwise they would destroy Multan.
 
2. There was no rebellion recorded from any other fuedatory of Gujjar empire except from that of Gujjar Chauhans, which were ruling from Sakambri (In present day Gujarat of India) and he was killed on his way back to Kannauj in 953 or 954 AD, after successfully crushing the rebellion.
 
3. There is no rebellion recorded from his fuadatories from eastern side where the Gujjar Empire was extended up to Dhaka.
 
4. The Gujjar Parmars, of Ujjain, took immediate control of the situation after his death of the entire present day central India after his death.
 
At the time of his death the Gujarat was ruled by his another fuedatory of Gujjar Solanki clan.
 
5. The Bundelknad was under control of his another fuedatory of Gujjar Chandella clan, who most powerful at that point of time.
 
It was only after his death that many of his fuedatories asserted independence and formed various kingdoms of their own.
 
The territories from the borders of Multan to Dhaka to Gujarat Maharashtra were well in control of Gujjar Empire at the time of the rebellion from one of their own clan, the Chauhans from Sakambri.
 
 
 
 
 


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Originally posted by Sorgina

From what I have read it seems Harshvardhan was the last Hindu Emperor of India.
 
This is written about the last empire. Gurjar Samrat Mihir Bhoja Mahan was the greatest Emperor of India.
 
Dhillika the capital city of India was founded by his fuedatories Gujjar Tanwars and named after him as Mihirawli (Meharauli).
 
The city of Bhoja Pal ( Bhopal ) was founded by his another fuedatory the Gujjar Parmars, who were ruling Ujjain during Gujjar empire.
 
If the size of his empire, the challenges like external threats and controling the internal situations after the fall of Gupta empire, to which Harsh Vardan belonged will certainly put him on top of all the Emperors of India. 


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Hi Historians,

The current blood line of Gurjar Samrat Mir Bhoja was being carried by Nirbhay Gujjar, who was recently gunned down by Indian Police.  His adopted son Ram Prasad Chamaar, seen in the background of the picture is the heir to the royal gujjar throne.
 
 
 
 
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Hi Mr. Rajputana,
Please call the Great samrat of India with proper name Mihir Bhoja and not Mir Bhoja. 
 
The Iron Man of India , Sardar Patel was also in direct blood line of Samrat Mihir Bhoja the Great. By integrating 636 number of states of India under Republic of India he has shown to the world that he had inborn qualities to deal with the fuedatories ( of Britis empire this time) and  was the direct in blood line of the great Emperor.
 
Also please dont write the disrespectful words like Chammar, since as per the current law of Independent india it is a crime and you may be put behind the bars.
 
Regarding Nirbhay Singh I would like to say that his father died during his childhood and there was nobody to control and direct his unlimited power, courage to the right direction.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Apr-2007 at 04:49
Dear All,
 
This is more sort of a opinionistic topic rather than a research/info based topic.
 
There have been many discussions earlier within this forum and out of the forum on who the last Hindu Emperor of India was. Most historians says it was Harshavardhana and now there are discussions about the Gurjar Emperors etc.
 
I have a few questions.
 
1) Why is Chatrapathi Shivaji not accounted as a Hindu Emperor?
2) Is it because the Mughal Kings were considered to be "emperors" of "India" and not Shivaji Raje?
3) Why aren't late South Indian kings of large territories such as Vijayanagara Empire (that were in power from 1336 to 1646 and emperors like Krishna Deva Raya, 1509-1529 were extremely powerful) considered to be emperors of India?
4) Were these kings not Hindus? Did they not qualify to be emperors (because of size of their empire) or are Marathwada and Decaan not part of "India"?
 
I have not included here the empires and kingdoms from the East India because of my ignorance on them. Kindly enlighten.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Apr-2007 at 05:49

Good question ASHWIN,

I also want to know, why not ahoms of Assam be counted in this regard ?
They had also ruled a large area for a very long time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-Apr-2007 at 06:01
AshwinKumar & rathore I have merged your posts into this thread. We don't need two threads on the same topic.
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