Rewari

01Hemu of Rewari

Hem Chandra grew up in a trading family of Rewari and dealt in grain and saltpetre for the armies of Sher Shah Suri. His gift for supply and command carried him to the head of Adil Shah Sur’s government and armies; he is said to have won more than twenty battles. In 1556, after Humayun’s death, he took Agra and then Delhi from the Mughals and was crowned at Purana Qila with the title Vikramaditya. A month later, on 5 November 1556, an arrow struck his eye at Panipat as his army was winning; he was captured and beheaded. In Rewari the ruins of his haveli at Qutubpur still stand, with arched windows that local people say show a Portuguese touch.

02Rao Tula Ram and 1857

In May 1857, when the sepoys rose at Meerut and Delhi, Rao Tula Ram of Rampura near Rewari drove out the Company’s officials, raised troops and sent money and men to the fighters in Delhi. After Delhi fell he fought on, and on 16 November 1857 his force met a Company column at Nasibpur near Narnaul; the battle was among the hardest in the region, and many of his kinsmen and men fell. Tula Ram escaped, went to seek help from Iran and Afghanistan, and died at Kabul in 1863. Haryana remembers him as the hero of the Ahirwal.

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