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  Gwalior state information - Search.com
The house of Sindhia traces its descent from a family of which one branch held the hereditary post of patel in Kannerkhera, a village 16 miles east of Satara.
In 1782 the Treaty of Salbai was made with Sindhia, the chief stipulations being that he shoud withdraw to Ujjain, and the British north of the Yamuna, and that he should negotiate treaties with the other belligerents.
The continual evasion shown by Sindhia in all attempts at negotiation brought him into conflict with the British, and his power was competely destroyed in both western and northern India by the British victories at Ahmadnagar, Assaye, Asirgarh, and Laswari.
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  Dholpur - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1527, after a strenuous resistance, the fort was captured by Baber and with the surrounding country passed under the sway of the Moguls, being included by Akbar in the province of Agra.
In 1779 the rana of Gohad joined the British forces against Sindhia, under a treaty which stipulated that, at the conclusion of peace between the English and Mahrattas, all the territories then in his possession should be guaranteed to him, and protected from invasion by Sindhia.
This protection was subsequently withdrawn, the rana having been guilty of treachery, and in 1783 Sindhia succeeded in recapturing the fortress of Gwalior, and crushed his Jat opponent by seizing the whole of Gohad.
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 The Hindu : Karnataka / Hubli-Dharwad News : Sindhia seeks imposition of President's rule in State
Sindhia said "corruption had reached a zenith" under the coalition Government's rule.
Sindhia said his party had submitted a memorandum in this regard to the Governor.
Sindhia said that he would urge the Home Minister not to retire from active politics as he had to carry out the responsibility of building the Janata Dal (Secular).
www.hindu.com /2007/04/20/stories/2007042006960500.htm   (342 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Nagappa casualty in STF encounter: Sindhia
Bangalore: Leader of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Karnataka Assembly, P G R Sindhia on December 13 ruled out the possibility of forest brigand Veerappan having killed H Nagappa and claimed that he died in an encounter with police whose intention was to free the hostage.
Sindhia, who visited the slain leader's family at Kamagere in Chamarajanagar district on December 12, said circumstantial evidence points at police encounter.
Sindhia said his sources have told him policemen disguising themselves as 'Ayyappa' devotees entered the forests with the intention to kill Veerappan and free Nagappa.
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 Sindhia - Encyclopedia.com
Sindhia A leading MARATHA family, based at Gwalior in northern India, which dominated the Maratha confederacy in the late 18th century.
The founder of the family's fortunes, Ranoji Sindhia (died 1750), seized control of the Malwa region that he had been appointed to govern.
Daulat Rao Sindhia was defeated in 1803, and in 1818 Gwalior became a Princely State under the Company's protection.
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 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
Sindhia, who visited Nagappa’s home in Kollegal yesterday, refused to comment whether his statement had been spurred or influenced by his colleague’s family.
Political observers feel that Sindhia’s statement could be considered the official view of the Dal (U) as he is the leader of party in the Assembly.
Sindhia said sources had informed him that policemen disguised as devotees of Lord Ayyappa — who go on pilgrimage to Sabarimala in Kerala at this time of the year — had entered the forests with the intention of killing Veerappan and freeing Nagappa.
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 The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan - PART III
Sindhia relented so far as to award a present payment of half the arrears, and a permission that the men should be absorbed in the brigade about to be formed; but the astute Savoyard took care first to make them pile their arms, so that their future entertainment should be as individuals only.
Sindhia (not unmindful of Popham's Gwalior performance just twelve years before) hastened to assure the British Government that he regarded them as supreme within their own territories; and that, for his part, his sole and whole object was to establish the Imperial authority in those territories that were still subject to the Emperor.
All this time Sindhia was at Punah endeavouring to raise his influence in the Mahratta country to something like a level with his power in Hindustan.
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 The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan - Chapter V
Sindhia's progress in the Doab was more rapid, nor was it long before Musalman jealousy began to be aroused.
The new Governor, likewise, further alarmed Sindhia by sending a minister to reside at the Peshwa's Court at Punah, and the Patel anxiously set himself to work to consolidate his power in Hindustan, so as to be ready for the storm, from whatever quarter it might break.
In the meantime a small force was sent to Dehli by Sindhia and entered the palace, upon which the confederates, whose strength was not yet fully recruited, retired to their former encamping ground at Shahdara — the scene, it may be remembered, of Surajmal's fall in the days of Najib-ud-daulah.
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Sindhia's progress to Puna Holkar advances in his absence Ismail Beg taken prisoner Battle of Lakhairi Sindhia rebuked by Lord Cornwallis His great power Rise of George Thomas 1793.
When Madhoji Sindhia, after a lapse of twenty years, mastered all Asiatic opposition by the employment of the same instrument, he had a European general, the Count de Boigne, who was one of the great captains of his age; and he allowed him to use his own strategy and tactics.
The Bhao, with the Peshwa's son and the household troops, was in the centre.
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 Sindhia - Definition, explanation
The Sindhia state of Gwalior became a major regional power in the latter half of the eighteenth century; they figured prominently in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars, held sway over many of the Rajput states, and conquered the state of Amber.
After the defeat of the allied Maratha states by the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1818, the Sindhia were forced to accept local autonomy as a princely state within the British Raj and to give up Amber to the British.
The Sindhia family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, when the Maharaja Jiyajirao Scindia acceded to India, and Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states to become the new Indian state of Madhya Bharat in 1950.
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 Boigne - LoveToKnow 1911
Hearing of the wealth of India, he made his way to that country, and after serving for a short time in the East India Company, he resigned and joined Mahadji Sindhia in 1784 for the purpose of training his troops in the European methods of war.
In the battles of Lalsot and Chaksana Boigne and his two battalions proved their worth by holding the field when the rest of the Mahratta army was defeated by the Rajputs.
This success led to his being given the command of a brigade of ten battalions of infantry, with which he won the victories of Patan and Merta in 1790.
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  Daulatrao Sindhia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daulatrao Sindhia (born 1779, died 1827) was the king (Maharaja) of Gwalior state in central India from 1794 until his death in 1827.
Daulatrao was a member of the Sindhia dynasty, and succeeded to the Gwalior throne in February 1794 at the age of 15, upon the death of Maharaja Mahadji Sindhia.
The continual evasion shown by Sindhia in all attempts at negotiation brought him into conflict with the British, and his power was competely destroyed in both western and northern India by the British victories at Ahmadnagar, Assaye, Asirgarh, and Laswari.
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 Sindhia - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Sindhia family were the Maratha ruling family of Gwalior, a former princely state in north-central India.
The dynasty was founded by Ranoji Sindhia, who the Maratha Peshwa, or chief minister, put in charge of the Maratha conquests in Malwa in 1726.
The Sindhia family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, when the Sindhia Maharaja acceded to India, and Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states to become the new Indian state of Madhya Bharat in 1950.
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 Sindhia Definition / Sindhia Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Sindhia, additionally spelled Scindia, Sindia, or Shinde are a prominent MarathaThe Maratha Empire, (also spelled Mahratta), additionally named the Maratha Confederacy, was a state in central India.
The Sindhia family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union.
Sindhia is a modernistic novel written in 1954, but still of great interest to the people of today.
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 Scindia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dynasty was founded by Ranoji Rao Scindia, who the Maratha Peshwa, or chief minister, put in charge of the Maratha conquests in Malwa in 1726.
The Sindhia state of Gwalior became a major regional power in the latter half of the eighteenth century; they figured prominently in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars, held sway over many of the Rajput states, and conquered the state of Ajmer.
After the defeat of the allied Maratha states by the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1818, the Scindia were forced to accept local autonomy as a princely state within British India and to give up Ajmer to the British.
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 1803-1805: Second Anglo-Maratha War - Part I - Sify.com
Sindhia and Bhosale tried to win over Holkar but he did not join them and retired to Malwa and Gaekwad chose to remain neutral.
The army of Sindhia was completely destroyed at the battle of Delhi in September and at Laswari in Alwar State in November.
Similarly, the Sindhia signed the Treaty of Surji-Arjanaon on December 30, 1803 and ceded to the Company all there territories between the Ganga and the Yamuna.
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 2nd Mahratta War : 1803-1805
By early August, negotiations with Sindhia having failed, the governor-general moved against the two principal Maratha forces: a combined army of Sindhia and the Raja of Berar in the Deccan, about 50,000 strong, including 10,500 regular infantry; and further north, Sindhia's main army, about 35,000 strong, commanded by Perron.
Wellesley encountered the army of Sindhia and Ragogee Bhonsla at Assaye on 23 September.
Sindhia sued for peace and a treaty was concluded on 30 December 1803, by which he yielded much territory.
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 Sindhia dares Gowda to convene JD(S) National Executive
Senior Janata Dal (S) leader P G R Sindhia, who was one among the national leaders who had sought the removal of party President H D Deve Gowda for aligning with communal BJP, today dared the former Prime Minister to convene the National Executive meeting.
Mr Sindhia, along with Mr Surendra Mohan and Mr Virendra Kumar had released a statement in New Delhi last week stating that the party would remove Mr Gowda from the President's post for aligning with the BJP in Karnataka.
Stating that the party had not ratified the removal of Mr Siddaramaiah, he said it was his (Mr Sindhia's) mistake that he did not revolt against Mr Devegowda for his act, which was against the party's basic principles.
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 The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Cauvery: create a `constitutional crisis', say Vatal, Sindhia
Bangalore: Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha leader Vatal Nagaraj and the former Minister P.G.R. Sindhia on Thursday made strong plea in the Legislative Assembly for representing Karnataka's case on the Cauvery issue to leaders of all mainstream political parties and constitutional functionaries.
Sindhia said the resignation of Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting M.H. Ambareesh would not serve the cause of farmers and that he should withdraw it.
Sindhia said they were disappointed over Maharashtra Governor S.M. Krishna supporting that State's claim over Belgaum in his speech to the joint legislature session.
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 Scindia Summary
The Sindhia family, a prominent lineage of rulers in western India in the eighteenth century, played an important role in the ultimate transference of power to the British in much of the area that was to become the Bombay Presidency in the following century.
The founder of the dynasty, Nemaji Sindhia, invaded Malwa in central India in 1704.
The Sindhia state of Gwalior became a major regional power in the latter half of the eighteenth century; they figured prominently in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars, held sway over many of the Rajput states, and conquered the state of Ajmer.
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 The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan By H.G.Keene-Part 3 Chapter 1
The battalion of Lestonneaux - or whatever the name - was deserted by its commandant, with eight months' arrears due to it, was disorganized and mutinous; and Sindhia meditated an attack upon it with an overwhelming body of horse.
Here Najaf Kuli Khan had breathed his last in a stronghold of earth faced with stone, on the borders of the great Bikanir desert, among sand-hills and low growths of tamarisk; and here his widow - a sister of the deceased Gholam Kadir - continued to reside.
In his dependent condition, enjoying but the moderate stipend of ninety thousand pounds a year for his whole civil list - and that not punctually paid - the blind old man turned envious thoughts upon the prosperity of the provinces which he had formerly ceded to his old protectors, the British.
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 Atlantic
Sindhia family continues to play an important role in Indian Politics and the last Sindhian ruler became Raj Pramukh of Madhya Bharat.
After the abolition of Privy purse, Vijay Raje Sindhia and Basundhra Raje in B.J.P. and Madhavrao Sindhia and Jyotiraditya Sindhia in Congress continued to play an important role in Indian Politics and are related with Nepal and Kashmir royal family.
Daulat Rao Sindhia and the Consolidation of Malwa and Central India 7.
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 Name MLAs who took bribes, Sindhia tells Mallya -Bangalore-Cities-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sindhia said he was disturbed by Mallya’s statements.
BJP: Sindhia alleged that Congress had entered into a secret pact with the BJP in the state as a consequence of which Union minister Ananth Kumar became the party’s state chief.
Sindhia said the “secret alliance’’ was evident from the fact that prime minister A.B. Vajpayee and chief minister S.M. Krishna complimented each other on every occasion they met.
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 New BIAL head to be decided in Jan
Sindhia and the Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel discussed the issue during their meeting at New Delhi on Thursday and the name would be decided in January.
Sindhia said the Centre and the Airports Authority of India were particular about the expansion of the terminal building at the new Bangalore international airport at Devanahalli, work on which was in progress, by clubbing phase one and phase two of the project.
On the Metro rail project for Bangalore, Sindhia reiterated that financial implications should be considered in depth, though the state cabinet had given in principle clearance to it about a year ago.
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