ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SCINDIA DAULAT R&#256O (1780-1827)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="SCINDIA,DAULAT,RO,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279SCINDIA, DAULAT R&#256O (1780-1827), Mar&#257&#7789h&#257 chief of Gw&#257l&#299or, who in the closing decades of the eighteenth century succeeded in becoming viceregent of the shrunken Mu<u>gh</u>al empire. He held in his power the blind titular emperor Sh&#257h &#256lam, whom he had rescued from the clutches of the Ruh&#299l&#257s, and ruled in his name through his deputies Comte de Boigne and Pierre Cuillier Perron, who commanded large Mar&#257&#7789h&#257 armies. Daulat R&#257o established Mar&#257&#7789h&#257 supremacy in Delhi and &#256gr&#257 and in the trans-Jamun&#257 region, but, unlike his predecessor Mah&#257dj&#299 Scindia, who in 1788 had come to an understanding with the Sikhs, he wanted to curb their power. In 180l, the cis-Sutlej Sikh chiefs of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, N&#257bh&#257, J&#299nd, Kaithal, L&#257&#7693v&#257 and Th&#257nesar approached his all-powerful deputy Perron, to afford them protection against the ravages of George Thomas, the Irish adventurer, who, after a short period of employment under App&#257 Kha&#7751&#7693e R&#257o, had carved out the independent kingdom of H&#257&#7749s&#299. A Mar&#257&#7789h&#257 force 12,000 strong, marched under Louis Bourquien, expelled Thomas from the M&#257lv&#257 region and liquidated his tiny principality, but Perron subjected the Sikh chiefs to heavy exactions and tributes.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Daulat R&#257o's influence over the cis-Sutlej region was, however, short-lived. In September 1803, he was defeated by the English at Delhi and in November at L&#257sv&#257r&#299. He ceded to the British the districts of Delhi, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Hiss&#257r and &#256gr&#257. The Mar&#257&#7789h&#257s thus lost their influence in northern India.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Daulat R&#257o Scindia died on 21 March 1827.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Griffin, Lepel, <i>The Rajas of the Punjab</i> [Reprint]. Delhi, 1977<BR> <li class="C1"> Gupta, Har&#299 R&#257m, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>, vol. lll. Delhi, 1974<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i> [Reprint]. Patiala, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>