wab Ganj area and the Ahmedabadi fortress therein, which still stands. The death of Ghulam Qadir put an end to the Rohilla administration in Saharanpur and it became the northernmost district of the Maratha Empire. Ghani Bahadur Banda was appointed its first Maratha governor. During the Maratha Regime, the Bhuteshwar Temple and Bagheshwar Temple were built in Saharanpur city.
The Gurjar Rule
When the British reached Saharanpur in 1803, it was under Gurjar Control who were allied to the Marathas. The Gurjar King Raja Ram Dayal Singh held vast territories in the area. The Marathas were ousted by the British East India Company, which occupied the region of Saharanpur in 1803; They also occupied the present Muzaffarnagar and Haridwar districts. Saharanpur passed firmly into the hands of British invaders in 1804, when they had eliminated Maratha resistance and suppressed the frequent Sikh attackers completely. Raja Ram dayal Singh was allowed to rule the area by the British. When the British usurped the vast holdings of Raja Dayal Singh Gurjar in 1813, a local uprising of the Gurjars took place, but the British suppressed it with a heavy hand. Local Gurjar chiefs planned a collective revolt in 1824, but the plan leaked and the movement was ruthlessly crushed.
From 1822 to 1825, the Gurjar community held a fierce armed protest against British rule. Several times, when the British were transporting their treasury from one place to place they were killed and looted by Gurjar soldiers and farmers. Most of the Gurjar-occupied areas like Landhaura, Parikshitgarh, Dadri and Samthar had their boundaries reduced by the British. Estates consisting of thousands of villages were reduced to only few hundred villages. Revolts in western Uttar Pradesh (including Saharanpur district) during 1821 to 1825 led to the killing of thousands of Gurjars. Many were hanged and thousand of them were given a
