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DHAR , a native See also:

state of See also:India, in the See also:Bhopawar agency, Central India. It includes many See also:Rajput and Bhil feudatories, and has an See also:area of 1775 sq. m. The See also:raja is a Punwar Mahratta. The founder of the See also:present ruling See also:family was Anand See also:Rao Punwar, a descendant of the See also:great Paramara See also:clan of Rajputs who from the 9th to the 13th See also:century, when they were driven out by the Mahommedans, had ruled over See also:Malwa from their See also:capital at Dhar. In 1142 Anand Rao received Dhar as a See also:fief from See also:Ball Rao, thepeshwa, the victory of the See also:Mahrattas thus restoring the See also:sovereign See also:power to the family which seven centuries before had been expelled from this very See also:city and See also:country. Towards the See also:close of the 18th and in the See also:early See also:part of the 19th century, the state was subject to a See also:series of spoliations by Sindia and See also:Holkar, and was only preserved from destruction by the talents and courage of the adoptive See also:mother of the fifth raja. By a treaty of 1819 Dhar passed under See also:British See also:protection, and See also:bound itself to See also:act in sub-See also:ordinate co-operation. The state was confiscated for See also:rebellion in 1857, but in 1860 was restored to Raja Anand Rao Punwar, then a See also:minor, with the exception of the detached See also:district of Bairusia, which was granted to the begum of See also:Bhopal. Anand Rao, who received the See also:personal See also:title Maharaja and the K.C.S.I. in 1897, died in 1898, and was succeeded by Udaji Rao Punwar. In 1901 the See also:population was 142,115. The state includes the ruins of See also:Mandu, or Mandogarh, the See also:Mahommedan capital of Malwa. The See also:TowN OF DHAR is 33 M.

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Mhow, 908 ft. above the See also:sea. Pop. (1901) 17,792. It is picturesquely situated among lakes and trees surrounded by barren hills, and possesses, besides its old walls, many interesting buildings, See also:Hindu and Mahommedan, some of them containing records of a great See also:historical importance. The See also:Lat Masjid, or See also:Pillar See also:Mosque, was built by Dilawar See also:Khan in 1405 out of the remains of Jain temples. It derives its name from an See also:iron pillar, supposed to have been originally set up at the beginning of the s3th century in See also:commemoration of a victory, and bearing a later inscription recording the seven days' visit to the town of the See also:emperor See also:Akbar in 1598. The pillar, which was 43 ft. high, is now overthrown and broken. The Kamal Maula is an enclosure containing four tombs, the most notable being that of Shaikh Kamal Maulvi (Kamal-ud-din), a follower of the famous 13th-century Mussulman See also:saint See also:Nizam-ud-din Auliya.' The mosque known as Raja Bhoj's school was built out of Hindu remains in the 14th or 15th century: its name is derived from the slabs, covered with See also:inscriptions giving rules of See also:Sanskrit See also:grammar, with which it is paved. On a small See also:hill to the See also:north of the town stands the fort, a conspicuous See also:pile of red See also:sandstone, said to have been built by Mahommed See also:ben Tughlak of See also:Delhi in the 14th century. It contains the See also:palace of the raja. Of See also:modern institutions may be mentioned the high school, public lilrary, See also:hospital, and the See also:chapel, school and hospital of the See also:Canadian Presbyterian See also:mission. There is also a See also:government See also:opium See also:depot for the See also:payment of See also:duty, the town being a considerable centre for the See also:trade in opium as well as in See also:grain.

The town, the name of which is usually derived from Dhara Nagari (the city of See also:

sword See also:blades), is of great antiquity, and was made the capital of the Paramara chiefs of Malwa by Vairisinha IL, who transferred his headquarters hither from See also:Ujjain at the close of the 9th century. During the See also:rule of the Paramara See also:dynasty Dhar was famo us throughout India as a centre of culture and learning; but, after suffering various vicissitudes, it was finally conquered by the Mussulmans at the beginning of the 14th century. At the close of the century Dilawar Khan, the builder of the Lat Masjid, who had been appointed See also:governor in 1399, practically established his See also:independence, his son Hoshang Shah being the first Mahommedan See also:king of Malwa. Under this dynasty Dhar was second in importance to the capital Mandu. Subsequently, in the See also:time of Akbar, Dhar See also:fell under the dominion of the Moguls, in whose hands it remained till 1930, when it was conquered by the Mahrattas. See Imperial Gazetteer of India (See also:Oxford, 1908).

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