Chandu Lal
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Died | 15 April 1845 |
Chandu Lal Malhotra (1766 – 15 April 1845 ), better known as Maharaja Chandu Lal was the
Family
Chandu Lal Sadan's was born in an Malhotra family. Another states he was from a Hindu
In Sikh Darbar
Chandu Lal was a Minister within the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh under the Sikh Empire. They both had good relations and Chandu Lal Malotra became a General in the Sikh Khalsa Army. He then converted and became a devout Sehajdhari Sikh.
In an agreement between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Nizam of Hyderabad for the construction of a Gurudwara in the spot where Guru Gobind Singh Ji died and the Nizam of Hyderabad making it 4 acres large made of marble, Ranjit Singh would give him 24,000 Nihang Sikhs as private unpaid soldiers to quell rebellions.[citation needed]
Chandu Lal may have considered himself a Nanakpanthi, as he was devotee of the Udasi saint, Baba Priyatam Das.[3]
In Nizam Darbar
He started his career as a subordinate in the customs department of
Prime minister
Chandu Lal was made prime minister of Hyderabad Deccan twice. First in the year 1808 then in 1832 AD and he held the office until 1843 AD.[4]
Maharaj Chandulal's Temple
As per legends, a saint returning from a pilgrimage to Tirumala, stopped at Alwal. During his stay, the saint who was carrying an idol of Lord Balaji, sat meditating under a tamarind tree. Chandulal Bahadur, along with his family paid a visit to the saint to seek his blessings. The saint told Chandulal that Lord Venkateswara had appeared in his dreams and told him that a temple should be built at Alwal for devotees who could not afford to go to Tirumala. Chandulal built a small temple and installed the idol of Lord Venkateswara.[7] The temple has been declared as an heritage structure. [8]
Poet
Chandu Lal (who used the pen name "Sadan") as a learned man, was a patron of
See also
References
- ^ McAuliffe, Robert Paton (1904). The Nizam; the origin and future of the Hyderabad state, being the Le Bas Prize essay in the University of Cambridge, 1904. Robarts - University of Toronto. London C.J. Clay. pp. 39.
- ^ Law, John. "Chapter III : The Nizams and their Ministers". Modern Hyderabad (Deccan). p. 30.
- ^ OCLC 881607325.
- ^ a b c d e Qasemi, Sharif Husain (15 December 1990). "Chandu Lal Sadan: Maharaja, statesman and poet in Persian and Urdu". Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ JSTOR 2052461.
- ^ Buckland, Charles Edward (1906). Dictionary of Indian biography. S. Sonnenschein.
- ^ Mungara, Sunil (13 November 2017). "Ancient Alwal temple in blind spot, choultries crumbling". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Hyderabad Heritage Audit 2023". The Deccan Archive.
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