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Desu Singh

18th century · 18th century

Desu Singh was a Sikh chief of the Bhai family who seized Kaithal, in present-day Haryana, around 1767 during the Sikh expansion into the former Mughal province of Sirhind. He founded the state of Kaithal, which his descendants ruled until it lapsed to the British in 1843.

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Kaithal State

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