Talk:Durgadas Rathore

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message: Shiv,
The folklore I heard when I used to live in Jodhpur was something like this.
Some of the camels of the Maharaja of Jodhpur Jaswant Singh strayed into Durgadas's father Askaran's fields for grazing. Durgadas, who was a mere child at that time, objected to the camel herder against this. The herder acted haughty because the camels belonged to the Maharaja. Durgadas got angry and severed the head of one of the camel with one stoke of his sword. The herder panicked and quickly pulled out of the field with the remaining camels.
When the complaint reached Maharaja Jaswant Singh, he summoned Askaran and Durgadas in his presence. When Durgadas went to his court, the Maharaja was astonished to discover that he was still a child. Maharaja refused to believe that a kid so small can actually behead a camel. Durga Das on the other hand fearlessly admitted to killing the camel. The Maharaja asked Durga Das to prove it. Durga Das soon got hold of some camel from somewhere and beheaded it with one sword stroke in the Maharaja's presence. Jaswant Singh was immensely pleased by this daring kid and took him into his service. From then onwards Durga Das rose on to become the most trusted Rajput Sardar of Rathore Royal House.
I don't know which version is most accurate. can you do some more research on this and find out more about this incident of Durga Das's life.
Regards
Sisodia
:Sisodia,
:What I wrote is based on books by Sukhvir Singh Gehlote and Raghubir Sinh (Present Sitamau ruler. He is a rathore). They both mention he killed the raika and for this murder he was summoned by the king.  Asakaran almost disowned Durga in the court but Maharaja was very impressed by Durga's candor and made sure that Durga Das remained in Jodhpur.  During battle of Dharmath against Aurangzeb Durgadas changed four horses and lost about half a dozen swords (they broke due to intense fighting) and he finally fell down half dead. Maharaja ordered him to be carried away.  After his wounds healed he promptly rejoined Maharaja's army. Note in this war rathores fought with utmost valor but the muslim commander sent by ShahJahan to assist Maharaja Jaswant Singh changed sides and joined Aurangzeb. Because of this war Aurangzeb never liked Jaswant Singh. Aurang knew that Jaswant lost not because of lack of valor but because of realpolitik by Aurang.  He was always scared of Jaswant Singh. Shivraj Singh 17:47, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: I have stripped back and rephrased this article, which was in quite a bad state. My last edit was to remove all of the references. This is because none of them were linked via footnotes and most of them appeared to be non-English. Nothing wrong with non-English sources if treated correctly per policy but the combination was pretty disastrous for someone like me, who is trying to fix up the entire mess but speaks only English and Gibberish.
I have identified a fair few reliable, English sources and will support the statements using them, but it will take me 24 hours or so and I suspect that there will be a few aide memoire cite requests inserted by me while I work it all out. If people could bear with me for, say, 2 or 3 days in total then I think we could end up with an article worthy of Wikipedia. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 23:44, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: As to why Durga Das was in Deccan during 1681-87, R.C. Majumdar notes it was to help Prince Akbar after the prince's rebellion against his father Aurangzeb. akela (talk) 01:24, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent find, thanks. You can add it to the article yourself - Sitush (talk) 05:34, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
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message: I understand there are some sources which use Veer prefix for Durgadas, please read WP:HONORIFIC and discuss whether prefix "Veer" is suitable for Durgadas Rathore on wikipedia. All sources can be discussed where it is commonly used or not used for him. Sajaypal007 (talk) 06:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
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