History of Kumaon King Doti Kalyan Chand: One of the Cruelest Kumaon Kings

(History of Kumaon from 1000-1790 AD)

         (History of Chand Dynasty Rule in Kumaon)

History of Uttarakhand (Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar) - Part 198

                                              By: Bhishma Kukreti

Ruling Period of Kumaon King Doti Kalyan Chandra-1730-1747

Doti Kalyan Chandra ruled till 1747 and died in 1748

Inscriptions – 1731 (six ) ,32,33 (three),34 (Three),35,36,37,40,44,45,46 AD

Contemporary Kingdoms

Garhwal- Pradip Shah

Delhi Mogul King- Muhammad Shah -1719-1748

       It is believed that Doti Kalyan Chandra was successor of Narayan Chand who was exiled from Kumaon long back.

                 The Fadtwal and Mara group brought Kalyan Chand from Doti. They already made understand to Kalyan Chand that Gaida Bisht group is deceptive and harmful to all. People and administration were fed up from suppressive, oppressive methods of Gaida Bisht group led by Manik Bisht and his son Puranmall Bisht.  The oppression and suppression of Bisht is called Gaidagaridi in Kumaon history. Those  brought Kalyan Chand as Kumaon king from Doti they advised Kalyan Chandra to destroy Gaida group.

                    When at the time of crowning of Kalyan Chandra, Manik Bisht and his son Puranmall came to pay tribute to the new King; Kalyan Chandra ordered to capture Manik Bisht and Puranmall Bisht. Newly coroneted King Kalyan Chand ordered to kill both. The soldiers killed Bisht and their family members in the court.

 The wife of Puranmall was pregnant. She was handed over to an old Muslim. She delivered a son and named as Bairishal. At the age of 18, this boy was returned his property snatched by Shivdev Joshi. The orphan disowned king Balo Kalyan Chand was handed over to a Muslim Chobdar and was converted from a Hindu Rajput to Muslim.

                      Killing of Rautelas (relative of Chand king family members)

       Doti Kalyan Chandra was a poor farmer. He got the Kingdom by chance and he never dreamed to be King at all. Doti Kalyan Chand was always conscious that somebody would deceive him and would take the Kingdom from him. The cunning administrative officers took disadvantages of the fear of uneducated, rural oriented, inexperienced in ruling, inexperienced in internal politics of ruling, Kumaon King Doti Kalyan Chandra.  The cunning officers used to tell him false story that somebody is against the king and Doti Kalyan Chand used to punish the so called culprit. The selfish officers told him that Rautelas the relatives of old Chand kings would take over the crown from him. Doti Kalyan Chandra ordered to smash all Rautelas from Kumaon.  The government agencies started killing Rautelas from Kumaon territory.

                     The government agents killed Rautela men –women from Danpur to Bhabhar. Those were not killed they were exiled from the Kingdom.

             The spies used to roam from village to village to find out Rautela.  The person who used to inform about Rautela, the King used to reward the informer. Many people were taking disadvantage of such tactics of the King and were informing the government agencies about their enemies as Rautela.

 Kumaoni People did not oppose the cruel genocide of Rautelas by King Doti Kalyan Chand

                     The Kumaoni people did not oppose the genocide acts against Rautela families by Doti Kalyan Chand. The reason was that when Chand Kings came to power they displaced old local village in charges and appointed cruel Rautela (family members of Chand dynasty). These regional administration heads Rautelas were very cruel and selfish. The old village council chiefs were Katyuri and they were not cruel as Rautelas were. When King Doti Kalyan Chand started destroying Rautelas the subject became glad.  

 Many Rautelas ran away from Kumaon and took shelters under Katehar or Bareli rulers. One of them was Himmat Gusain.

@@ Read more about Cruel King Doti Kalyan Chand in next chapter

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti -bckukreti@gmail.com 26/11/2013

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(The History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar write up is aimed for general readers)

                           

History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand, India) to be continued… Part -199  

History of Kumaon (1000-1790) to be continued….

Himalayan, Indian History of Chand Dynasty rule in Kumaon to be continued…

  (Himalayan, Indian History (740-1790 AD to be continued…)

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