Rao Ruda Singh was an
Ahir
Ahir or Aheer are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous. The Ahirs are variously described as a ...
King and a scion of the family of Raos which have ruled over Rajasthan since the eighth century A.D. who cleared the jungle in
Ahirwal
Ahirwal is a region spanning parts of southern Haryana , north-eastern Rajasthan, and South-Western Delhi The region was once a small principality based from the town of Rewari and controlled by members of the Yaduvanshi Ahir community from ar ...
in 1555 and founded new villages.
[Man Singh, Abhirkuladipika Urdu (1900) Delhi, p. 105, 106]
See also
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Rao Tula Ram
Rao Tularam Singh (''circa'' 9 December 1825 – 23 September 1863) was a Yaduvanshi Ahir King or chieftain of Rewari. He was one of the leaders of the Indian rebellion of 1857 in Haryana, where he is considered a state hero.
Personal life
H ...
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Rao Mitrasen Ahir
References
History of Haryana
Indian nobility
16th-century Indian people
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