udayasimha
treacherous son and murderer of rANA kumbha.
Sarjan Sah
Buddhist traitor who for a price, pointed out the location of the granary during the seige of raNthambore of hammIra chAhamAna by allauddin khilji.
shilAditya
the pUrvIya tomara who betrayed sangrAma-simha of mevAr to bAbuur.
Sewand Rai
general of masUd of ghazni: “Only fifty days after the death of Mahmud, his son despatched Sewand Rai, a Hindu chief, with a large body of Hindu cavalry in pursuit of the nobles who had espoused the cause of his brother. Sewand Rai died in the ensuing battle.”
tilak the bauddha
the bauddha/ hindu general of Masud of Ghazni: “The son of a barber, he became a confidant of Khwaja Ahmed Hasan Maimandi, the influential wazir of Sultan Mahmud. The khwaja made Tilak his secretary and interpreter, and in 1033, when news was received from Lahore of the rebellion of Ahmad Niyaltigin, it was Tilak who was sent to deal with the situation. The extreme measures taken by the Hindu general against the Muslim partisans of Ahmad show his confidence and sense of security.”.
pUrNayya
from a deshastha family settled for generations in TN, who ably assisted Haidar and TIpu despite their outrages on hindus and brAhmaNa-s (including his relative’s daughter); and sought to enthrone Fateh Haider after TIpu, mildly resisting British attempts to restore the vaDiyars.
Rana Arjun Singh
and to a smaller extant his son Chadra Singh of Amerkot/ Umerkot, who chose to joing pAkistan despite having a hindu majority. Even as a mere zamIndAr rANa without authority to accede like a king, by winning elections for muslim league, he ensured that Amarkot went to TSP rather than India. A, Q
hemant karkare
policeman who framed and tortured the likes of Lt Col shrIkAnta purohit and sAdhvI prajJNA, before ultimately (and ironically) being killed by jihAdi-s.
dUdhnAth tivArI
the mutineer imprisoned in anDamans, who, for a pardon, betrayed the native tribe which spared him, gave him shelter and a wife to the British contingent in Aberdeen.
Bhim Singh
who was conferred the title Raja Ghorpade Bahadur (Dakkani word for the Varanus lizard) by the Sultan at the behest of minister Gavan and his brother.
“The Turks advanced again, and Appaji decided to hold them up using the same tactic of defending from the well-fortified Vishalgad. However, Karan Singh and Bhim Singh were breeders of the Varanus lizard which they used in climbing forts. Accordingly Karan and Bhim decided to help the Moslems in taking the fort, in return for the province of Wai. Karan and Bhim sent out several lizards to scale the precipice on which the fort was located with ropes tied to them. With the aid of these ropes they climbed the fort and sent down rope ladders for more men to follow them. Then they cut their way to the main fort gate and opened it. In the process Karan Singh was killed by the Hindu defenders but the Moslems managed to get in and massacred Appaji and his men. With the fall of Vishalgad, Mahmud Gavan attacked the Chalukyan army by surprise at Samgameshvar.” MT
raghunAth rAv
raghunAth rAv, the highly capable but power-hungry uncle of the good peshvA mAdhav rAv, whose machinations and alliances with enemy powers only weakened the marATha confrederacy.
AnandI-bAyi
power-hungry wife of raghunAth rAv, murdress.
murAri rao
servant of the Qutub Shahi, who stole the Ahobilam idol
- paTTavardhana who stole the huNDi of tirupati
- lamaans (a caste dealing with grain) under Raghunath rao ‘dada’ Kurundwadkar (brother of parashurAma-bhau) who looted shRngagiri during the time of Tippu sultAn (marATha-s made amends later). (SW15)