Bundela

Bundela

▪ Indian clan
      Rajput (Rājput) clan that gave its name to Bundelkhand in north-central India. The Bundelas, whose origin is obscure, emerged in the 14th century. They won prominence when they resisted the Afghan emperor, Shēr Shah of Sūr (Shēr Shāh of Sūr), who was killed while besieging their fortress of Kalinjar in 1545. The Bundela Bir Singh of Orchha, in collusion with Akbar's son, Prince Salīm (later Jahāngīr), ambushed and killed the Mughal emperor's confidant, Abu al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī, in 1602.

      The Bundela territories were important because through them ran the route from the Deccan to the Yamuna-Ganges doab. But they were hilly, remote, and difficult to control. The Mughals suppressed many insurrections until the Bundelas called in the Marathas (Marāṭhā) (1729). After many vicissitudes the tract passed under British control in the early 19th century. The fortress of Kalinjar was taken in 1812.

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