page_title: Rampura, Neemuch
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rampura, Neemuch / History
context_page_description: Rampura is a town in the Neemuch district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.Rampura Was Founded by King Ram Bhil. Rama was sardar but after the defeat from chandrawats of mewar, city rampura was ruled by this clan till independence of India.
context_section_description: Rampura is a small town in the Aravalli Range, Rampura has experienced a martial past. Many battles were fought here between the Bhils, Rajputs, Marathas, Mughals and British forces. It is located on the west side of the Chambal River.The legend is that Rama, who lived on one of the islands in the Chambal, valiantly fought the marching Rajput forces to defend his people and his territory. Even after being decapitated, his torso, with swords in both hands, kept fighting the invading forces until it fell at Shankhoddhar (submerged under the waters of Chambal since the late 1950s after the construction of Gandhi Sagar Dam), where an annual fair was held since then. Scattered throughout the town are numerous shrines to the Bhil deities or lost warriors, called Chhappan Bap Ji– literally meaning the “Honorable Fifty-six,” perhaps as a reference to each troop of 56 stationed at various locations to defend the original settlement  .
  Its location, connecting Malwa with Rajputana through the Mukundara Pass, made Rampura strategically important to all those with territorial ambitions and consequently a political shuttlecock.
  The occupying outsiders soon made this place their home. The fertile soil and abundance of water made life great. The hills offered protection. The rivers offered a way to trade but also protection. No one dared cross a swollen Chambal during the monsoons. Rampura served as a quick gateway to Rajputana, to Ujjain, to Dhar. However, the strategic location of Rampura made it a choice territory to occupy was also one of the main causes of its ruin.
   
  For centuries, Rampura remained a prosperous Mandi—central distribution place of grains and harvest. It was also known for its fine weavers and the small-blade kitchen knife (not to be confused with the  long-blade gravity knife popularly known as the "Rampuri knife" from Rampur, UP.) The Rampura weavers have long since disappeared, but the knives are still available in the local bazaar.
  Rampura was ruled by martial Rajput clan chandrawats, an offshoot of Sisodiya of Mewar, they leave the mewar due to internal disputes, After they came to Rampura. They capture whole rampura in one night from Rama a great bhill warrior,He fought with 2 hands but surrendered at village sakhodhara. After this Rampura was named on this bill warrior but it was ruled by chandrawats. 
  It is said that sometime between the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Ala ud din Khilji passed through Rampura, and briefly camped at "Patar-Sa-Ka-Khet" or "Padshah-Ka-Khet", literally translating as "the Emperor’s Farm." During one of the Islamic invasions, the adjoining "Padshahi BaoDi" or the four-walled water reservoir, with entrance steps, is said to have been built on an ancient temple grounds using the temple material for its construction.
  In the late 16th century the Mughal Emperor Akbar made Rampura an independent principality after capturing it as a part of the Mewar territory. Until 1660, Rampura remained under the Mewar Maharana, who paid annual tribute to the Mughals. For a brief period the Rampura rulers served the Mughal army, and for a while the district enjoyed peace and tranquillity.
  In 1689, during the times of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, great-grandson of Akbar, a dispute began in Rampura with the succession of Rao Gopal Singh Chandrawat. As history would witness, this family feud ultimately became the cause of the break-up of an independent state. In 1698, while Gopal Singh's son Ratan Singh, took over control. Gopal Singh appealed to the Emperor, who paid no heed.  At the instigation of Malwa Governor, Mukhtiyar Khan, Ratan Singh converted to Islam, taking the name Islam Khan, whereupon he was formally presented with the district of Rampura, and he subsequently re-named the town of Rampura as Islampura — a name that never took on. In June 1700, Gopal Singh abandoned the imperial forces, and returned from Deccan to Rampura, helped by Bhim Singh, son of Rao Ram Singh Hada (or Hara), of Kota. On 10 June 1700, Emperor Aurangzeb, stepped in to put an end to the revolt, and directed Prince
caption: Path to Bada talaab
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