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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol 1, p. 190.
8. S.G. Deogaonkar : Caste and Tribes of India-3,The Vanjara, Chapter 2.
9. The Fort at Agra too is known as Red Fort. It covers an area of 94 acres. A
brick Fortal ready existed here and was known as Badalgarh. It was
renovated and new additions too were made, between 1568 and 1573,
during Akbar’s time. Akbar commissioned sand stone (red stone) from
Barauli Rajasthan and built an outer wall with these stones; hence this
came to be known as Lal Qila.
10. Dhaula Kuan, about 20 km from Nahan on Nahan-Paonta Road, too was
built by Lakhi Rai.
11. Balwant Singh, Persian Sources on Banda Singh Bahadur, p 36.
12. Irvine, Later Mughals, vol. 1, p 109.
13. In February 1711, even the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah stayed there
and spent some time hunting in the hills.This has been referred to by
Pancholi Jagjivan Das in his letter to the ruler of Jaipur.
14. In his ‘History of the Sikh Gurus’, Har Ram Gupta says that, “in Shikasta
Persian with a slight change of dots and curves Nahan was written by the
scribe as Thapal. Thapal is no place in the territory of Raja Karam Parkash.
It is undoubtedly Nahan, capital of Sirmaur state. In fact Hari Ram Gupta
could not find Thapal; hence he made this statement. Several writers
including Indu Bhushan Bannerjee (Evolution of the Khalsa, II, 48) Ganda
Singh (Makhiz-e-Twarikh-e-Sikhism, I, 45); Chunnigham (A History of the
Sikhs, 55) have accepted it as Thapal. Khushwant Simgh (A History of the
Sikhs, I, 6) read it as Taksal or Tangral near Kasauli. Tarlochan Singh refutes
Har Ram Gupta’s contention that Nahan is the birthplace of Ram Rai and
Har Karishan. In support of his statement, Singh argues that, “There is no
historical place commemorating the visit of Guru Har Rai in Nahan, but
there are historical shrines commemorating the visit of Guru Gobind Singh
in Nahan and other places in Sirmaur.”