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{{Short description|Rajpurohit of Marwar (1675 - 1720)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = Patshah
| name = Akheraj Singh Rajpurohit
| image =
| caption = Thakur Akheraj Singh Rajpurohit
| birth_date = c. 1658
| birth_place = [[Tinwari]], [[Jodhpur]]
| death_date = March 1725
| children = Surajmal, [[Kesari Singh Rajpurohit]], Jaisingh, Mahasingh
| allegiance = [[File:Flag of Jodhpur.svg|20px]] [[Jodhpur State|Kingdom of Marwar]]
}}

'''Akheraj Singh Rajpurohit''' or '''Patshah Akheraj ji''' was the Rajguru and [[Sardar]] in the royal court of [[Marwar]] during the reign of Maharaja [[Jaswant Singh of Marwar|Jaswant Singh]] and Maharaja [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|Ajit Singh]].

== Background ==
Akheraj Singh sevad was the thakur of [[Tinwari]] thikana. He was the member and leader of the Royal Council of [[Marwar]]. The Maharaja of Jodhpur granted [[jagir]] of [[Khedapa]], Bhainser Khutri, Bhainser Kotwali, [[Tinwari]], [[Khichan|Khinchan]], Jatiyawas. Akheraj Singh was a solitaire politician of that time. He was the son of Thakur Dalpatsingh of [[Tinwari]], who got martyred in the [[Battle of Dharmat|Battle of Dharmat(1658)]], at the age of 22. He was one of the trusted aides of Maharaja [[Jaswant Singh of Marwar|Jaswant Singh]] and [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|Ajit Singh]]. Along with [[Durgadas Rathore]], he was fighting against Aurangzeb for the kingdom of Marwar and protecting young [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|Ajit Singh]]. He was brought up by [[Jaswant Singh of Marwar]] with all royal customs and manners, as he was yet to be born before his father died in the [[Battle of Dharmat|Battle of Dharmat(1658)]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sevaṛa |first=Prahalādasiṃha |title=Rājapurohita jāti kā itihāsa |date=2021 |publisher=Rājasthānī Granthāgāra |isbn=978-93-90179-06-0 |language=hi}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
After death of Maharaja [[Jaswant Singh of Marwar|Jaswant Singh]], Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] wanted to usurp the [[Jodhpur]]. At that time Akheraj was serving the chief of the security council of [[Mehrangarh]] fort. Badshah sent his trusted sardars to Jodhpur. Badshah gave the [[Mansabdar|mansab]] of jodhpur to Inder Singh, son of Rao AmarSingh of [[Nagaur]]. Inder Singh wanted to vacate the fort of Mehrangarh but he did not get success. So he sent a [[battalion]] to [[Tinwari]] pargana to take revenge. Akheraj's brother Nagraj Singh died in the battle of Tinwari. During this crisis in Jodhpur, [[Durgadas Rathore]] succeeded in getting [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|kunwar Ajit Singh]] out ofJodhpur safely and kunwar was kept undercover in Deori village of [[Sirohi]]. Later Akheraj singh took him to kalindri. Mukundadas Khinchi kept guarding him in the guise of a monk. Akheraj stayed with kunwar [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|Ajit Singh]] during his days of struggle and offered his services along with [[Durgadas Rathore|Durgadas]].<ref name=":0" />

When [[Prince|kunwar]] [[Ajit Singh of Marwar|Ajit Singh]] became the ruler of [[Marwar]], he gave [[jagir]]s to all his associates. Akheraj got [[Tinwari]], [[Khichan|Khinchan]], Jatiyawas, Khedapa again. Maharaja gave more than 650 villages to Akheraj ji but with all humility and modesty, selfless Akheraj ji insisted on transferring the Jagirs to his fellow Rajpurohit brothers and even requested to grant new Jagirs to the ones deprived of any. Maharaja gave him titles of "'''Anvi Akheraj'''" and "'''Patshah Akheraj'''".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Munshi Hardayal |title=Report Mardumshumari Rajmarwar 1891 E. |last2=MEHAR |first2=JAHOOR KHAN |publisher=RAJASTHANI GRANTHAGAR |isbn=((9788186103321)) |language=Hindi, English}}</ref> In his honour a subclan named 'Akherajot Sevad' was started in the Sevad clan of [[Rajpurohit]]s, whose descendants are generally known as 'Akherajots of [[Tinwari]]'.

Akheraj has a heroic figure among the folk of [[marwar]]. Many folks' songs are sung in his memory even today. A couplet is famous in the folklore:

'''बण-बण भटकियाँ भांखरा, अज संग अखेराज'''

'''प्रोहिता रा पातशाह, राखण कामधा राज ||'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sevaṛa |first=Prahalādasiṃha |title=Rājapurohita jāti kā itihāsa |date=2021 |publisher=Rājasthānī Granthāgāra |isbn=978-93-90179-06-0 |language=hi |page=133}}</ref>

== References ==

{{reflist}}

[[Category:1725 deaths]]
[[Category:1650s births]]
[[Category:People from the Kingdom of Marwar]]
[[Category:Jagirs]]
[[Category:Marwar]]
[[Category:Jodhpur]]

Akheraj Rajpurohit - Revision history

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