King Sudarshan Shah Selling Chandi Pargana

Whereabouts of King Designated Sudarshan Shah during Gurkha/Gorkha Rule -11

             Anglo Nepalese War with   Reference to Gurkha Rule over Uttarakhand & Himachal -46

History of Gorkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) -165   

             History of Uttarakhand (Garhwal, Kumaon and Haridwar) -688

                          By: Bhishma Kukreti (A History Student)

                   After getting money from Hearsay, Sudarshan Shah could improve standard of living for his family. After a few months of getting money from Hearsay, King Sudarshan Shah reached barely for meeting Hearsay.

 Sudarshan Shah the Garhwal King in exile sold the Chandi Pargana and Doon to Hearsay with orders of Aurangzeb to Prithvipati Shah or so on 22^nd June 1811 for Rs 3005. Hearsay had already paid some money in advance to Sudarshan Shah.

             Huge Pears described those orders of Muhammad Shah, Aurangzeb and Alammeer. However, Huge Pears seems be wrong in describing the names of Mughal emperors. Full Name of Aurangzeb was Abdul Muzaffar Muhidden Muhammad Aurangzeb Bahadur Alammeer. Hearsay might have taken those orders as from three Emperors.

 When the Chandi Pargana Sales Deed paper was written Harsh Dev Joshi was not present.

    Authenticity of Translation of Chandi Pargana Sales Deeds

 Huge Pears (The Hearsay papers) translated the deeds but the translations have many mistakes. Therefore the historians as Dr Dabral show their apprehension about authenticity of translation of Sales deeds of Chandi Pargana.

1-The names of father and forefathers of Sudarshan Shah were wrong.

2-Hearsay wrote a letter to Rous in 1822 about Sudarshan Shah selling Doon region to him for Rs 1200. However, Huge did not  mention about 1200 for Doon region.

 There are mistakes in The translation of Deeds done by Huge.

*English Mutiny Records Kumaon, Political Papers received Series- 1

*Saksena, Historical Paper related to Kumaon 

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti Mumbai, India, bckukreti@gmail.com 10/8/2015

History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand, India) to be continued… Part -689

*** History of Gorkha/Gurkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) to be continued in next chapter 

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

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