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Fateh Shah of Garhwal
Fateh Shah was Raja of the Garhwal Kingdom in the Himalayan foothills in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He kept a lively court at Srinagar in Garhwal, where painting and poetry flourished. In 1688 he joined the hill rajas against the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh and was defeated at the Battle of Bhangani, which the Guru described in his autobiographical poem Bachittar Natak.
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