Maharaja Balwant Singh of Benares
Balwant Singh Sahib Bahadur, also known as Maharaja Balwant Singh (1711–1770), was the ruler of Benares State in northern India.
Balwant Singh came from the Dynasty of Gautam
Following the Battle of Buxar in 1764, Emperor Shah Alam back stabbed him and transferred Balwant Singh's controlled area to the company, but the Company refused it along with the treaty of benares signed by the Emperor the same year. Britishers tried to the power of Beneras region once again to the Nawab of Awadh in 1765, but the maharaja Balwant Singh had protected his power and control over Beneras State remained with the Maharaja. This took place five years before Maharaja Balwant Singh's death in 1770. He is also called as the Shivaji of North India.[6]
Balwant Singh was succeeded by his son
References
- ISBN 978-0-521-31054-3.
- ^ Lethbridge, Roper (1893). The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Macmillan. pp. 66, 493.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931. v. 6, p. 252, and v. 12, p. 224.
- ^ Sandria, Freitag (1989). Culture and Power in Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ISBN 9781443815796.
- ^ Sanyal, Suprakash (1979). Benares and the English East India Company, 1764-1895. World Press.