page_title: Karam Chand Bachhawat
section_title: Karam Chand Bachhawat passes away
hierarchical_section_title: Karam Chand Bachhawat / Karam Chand Bachhawat passes away
caption_attribution_description: English: Acharya Jinchandra Suri
context_page_description: Karam Chand Bachhawat Bothra was the dewan of Bikaner State in the former Rajputana from 1571 to 1591. Chand, a descendant of Bachhraj Bothra, was a strategist in Bikaner and had a good relationship with Akbar. In 1591, fearing for his life, he resigned. At Akbar's invitation, Chand later joined the emperor as an adviser to the Lahore court.
context_section_description: In 1605, the Emperor Akbar died. Karam Chand Vanshho-KirtankamKavyam (1594) by Jaysom observes,
  “On the accession of Jahangir as Emperor of India, Raja Rai Singh went to Delhi. He also called on ailing Karam Chand to wish him good health and apologise for the past. He also expressed his condolences on demise of Akbar and wept profusely in front of Karam Chand”.
  After Raja Rai Singh went away, Karam Chand called his sons, Bhag Chand and Lakshmi Chand. He praised Raja Rai Singh but at the same time cautioned them that these were crocodile tears and not of love and affection. He said,
  “Raja Rai Singh is happy that I shall shortly pass away and regretted that he was unable to take revenge of the past. My dear children! Don’t you make a mistake of ever returning to Bikaner”.
  He passed away at Delhi after Emperor Akbar's death between 1605 and 1607.
  Capt PW Powlett writes in ‘Gazetteer of Bikaner State’,
  “It is interesting to note, whether Karam Chand’s presence at Mughal court was only due to his personal rapport with the Emperor Akbar or due to his linkages with the Jain religious circles close to Akbar. It is yet to be established whether he was kept at the court as a bulwark against the house of Bikaner to maintain a system of checks and balances. Thus, revenge was inevitable from Rai Singh and despite showing sympathy for the Bachhawat family he could not pursue Karam Chand or his sons to return to Bikaner. Thus, the hero of Jain tradition became the villain of the royal house of Bikaner and the Rajput traditions”.
  Bachhawat Karam Chand was a very cultured person and was indeed loyal to the king like his fore fathers. Later, Dewan Karam Chand Bachhawat, a close friend and strategist of Emperor Akbar became a historical person.
caption: Acharya Jinchandra Suri, guru of Karam Chand
exif: {"Image Software": "Picasa", "Image DateTime": "2017:11:13 19:09:53", "Image Artist": "Picasa", "Image ExifOffset": "96", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "364", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5910", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2014:10:25 18:07:28", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "548", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "721", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "520", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "693", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "228", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "a31ae31e4987526199319a17490433cf"}