The Gurkha's attack to Garhwal Uttarakhand in very early. In 18th century they Gurkha's attack to Garhwal and the changed to life of Garhwal people ( Garhwali's). It was very wild
attack by Gurkhs to Garhwal. Garhwali Rajas did much effort for servival from Gurkha's,The year 1803 is remarkable for the great and successful effort made by the Thapa party to reduce Garhwal. Ever since the siege of Langurgarh was raised in 1792, small parties of Gorkhalis had periodically plundered the border piranhas, which they were taught to look upon as their lawful prey. The prisoners made in these expeditions were sold into slavery, the villages were burned and the country made desolate. Still the Garhwalis did not always allow these rids to pass unpunished. Reprisal were made and border warfare ensued, characterized as all such wars are by deeds of wanton cruelty and bloodthirsty Langurgarh, but all had proved fruitless, and now the Gorkhali leaders, Amar singh Thapa, hastidal Chautariya, Bam Sah Chautariya, and others, at the head of numerous and well-equipped veteran army invaded Garhwal. In Hardwick’s narrative we have a description of Pradhuman Sah and his brothers in 1796, which we may make use of here. The Raja appeared then ‘to be about twenty-seven years of age, in stature something under the middle size, of slender make, regular features, but effeminate’. His brother Parakram Sah ws stouter and manlier person, and pritam Sah, then about nineteen years of age, is described as bearing a strong likeness to the Raja in make, features and voice. All wore plain muslin jamahs with colored turbans and waistbands, without jewels or other decorations. Pradhuman Sah’s appearance did not belie his character, mild and effeminate to degree he did not grasp the nature of the danger to which he was exposed and portents had already paralyses his superstitious mind and warned him that his hour had come. The priests of Paliyagadh at the sacred sources of the Jumna had foretold the Gorkhali conquest and the death of Pradhuman Sah at Dehra, and his capital itself had been visited by an earthquake, which rendered his palace uninhabitable; frequent shocks took place for several months, and it is said that many ancient strems ran dry, whilst new springs appeared in other places. No real resistance was offered and the Raja and his family fled by Bharat to the dun, closely pursued by the victorious Gorkhalis who occupied Gurudwara of Dehra in the cold weather (October of 1803). It is not a little remarkable that the Gorkhalis entered the dun as conquerors in the same month that the British first occupied Saharanpur. For more read artical on uttarakhandblog.in
