Suraj Mal Tomar (reign:1613–1618) was a

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and su ...

ruler of

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. During a campaign to

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, he rebelled against the

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, then he went into exile and died at

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. His brother,

Raja Jagat Singh Raja Jagat Singh was a Rajput soldier and ruler of the Nurpur kingdom. Folklore In 1630 Jagat Singh sided with his people of Nurpur, who were starving during the famine and paid taxes from his own pocket. A lack of rain for three years cause ...

, succeeded him as ruler of Nurpur.

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