Mendu
Mendu (मेंडू) is village in Hathras tahsil and district in Uttar Pradesh.
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Location
Girish Chandra Dwivedi[1] mentions....Mendu is situated 20 miles south, Hathras, 22 miles south of Aligarh, both on N. Rly. and Mudsan lies 7 miles west of Hathras. For correct situation of these places, see, J.M. Siddiqi, Aligarh District: A Historical Survey, 110, 113 fn. 4, 207, f.n. 6,210 f.n. 7, 211 f.n. 6.
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History
Mendu State (Thenua Kshatriya Jats): Mendu was conquered by Veer Nandram Singh Thenua from Poruch rulers (vassal of Mughals) around 1650s. Later on Bhure Singh of Hathras gave Mendu to his son. Thakur Jiwaram Singh (Brother of Raja Dayaram Singh of Hathras) who by folly and extravagance, dissipated the wealth he inherited and acquired leaving little to his son.Thakur Jiwanram Singh was succeeded by Thakur Randhir Singh.
The emergence of Badan Singh
Girish Chandra Dwivedi[2] mentions....The emergence of Thakur Badan Singh as the leader of the Jats, marks the dawn of a new era in their history. It signalled the ascendancy of the forces of stable conquest and steady growth over those of dubious and erratic expansion.1 However, the situation that he inherited was difficult,2 if not "almost hopeless".3 Far from being a homogenous unit,4 the Jats, so accustomed to clannish and individual independence, were broadly divided on policy matters into two hostile camps. Dispossessed Muhkam Singh with his continual machinations to regain the leadership posed a potential threat to the new chief. There is little doubt that the adherents of Churaman and his sons, like Khema,5 Bhure Singh and Daya Ram6 of Mendu.XV
1. Iqbal, 210; Memoires des Jats, 16, Qanungo, Jats, 60; Bhatnagar, Jai Singh, 103.
2. Author's article, 'Badan Singh Ke Kal Main Bharatpur Ka Pradeshik Vistar' (Hindi), Uplabdhi, (Samvat 2025), 66.
3. Contra see Sarkar, Fall, II, 427.
4. Author's article referred to above.
5. We have no definite information about the doings of Khema during Jai Singh's second seige of Thun. However, we do come across a reference in Shah nama Munawwar Kalam (Shivdas 103), showing Khema offering presents (two mohars) to the Emperor along with the imperial grandees just before the Nauroze festival in 1133 A.H. (C. third week of July, 1721). This leads us to infer that this chieftain continued to pretend his loyalty and thereby escaped being chastised by Jai Singh.
6. Bhure Singh and Daya Ram respectively were the son and grandson of Nanda Jat (see Imad, 82). It seems that Nanda died at this time for we do not find his name being mentioned any more-leaving Bhure and Daya Ram as his successors at Mendu.
XV. The author mis-takes Mendu for Mudsan, the fort of the successors of Nand Ram Jat of Thenua clan. Suraj Mal crushed the Bhadoria Rajputs of Agra district and the Porach Rajput taluqdar of Mendu in Aligarh district. He did not spare even independent Jat Zamindar of Mudsan, and evicted him from his fort. See J.N. Sarkar, Fall, II, (1991 ed.) p. 266; Allygurh Statistics, 239; S.PD., XXI, 100 and XXVII, 206; Rajwade I, 285, 295.
Mendu is situated 20 miles south, Hathras, 22 miles south of Aligarh, both on N. Rly. and Mudsan lies 7 miles west of Hathras. For correct situation of these places, see, J.M. Siddiqi, Aligarh District: A Historical Survey, 110, 113 fn. 4, 207, f.n. 6,210 f.n. 7, 211 f.n. 6.
Jagbir Singh informs that Raja of Mudsan shifted to Sasni about 12 miles east of Mudsan. Suraj Mal put Mendu under the control of Daya Ram/ Baran Singh of Hathras. After the death of Maharaja Suraj Mal his successor Jawahar Singh handed over Mudsan again to Raja of Sasni, who returned back to his old fort. Jagbir Singh, The Jat Rulers of Upper Doab, p.128 also 9. For the detailed history of the successors of Nand Ram called Nanda Jat of Thenua clan and the description of their garhis- Mudsan, Hathras, Sasni, Beswan and Tochhigarh etc. See Jagbir Singh's said book.
Girish Chandra Dwivedi[3] mentions....Badan Singh got Bhure Singh and Daya Ram of Mendu, subdued (c. 1730) by Suraj Mal.
जाट इतिहास
दलीपसिंह अहलावत[4] लिखते हैं - सूरजमल का सैनिक जीवन मेवात और माण्डू के युद्धों से शुरु हुआ था, किन्तु उसकी प्रथम उच्चकोटि की सैनिक सफलता अपने पिता के शक्तिशाली विरोधी खेमकरण जाट के विरुद्ध थी। इस सफलता ने उसे अत्यधिक प्रसिद्धि दिलाई।
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