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{{Short description|Indian deputy collector}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kuar Lachman Singh
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = 9 October 1826
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| death_date = 1896
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| occupation = [[deputy magistrate|Deputy collector]] of the [[Bulandshahr District|district of Bulandshahr]]
| years_active =
| known_for = Translation from Sanskrit of ''[[Shakuntala (play)|Shakuntala]]'' and [[Meghadūta]]
| notable_works = ''Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar'' (1874)
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'''Kuar Lachman Singh''', also known as '''Raja Lachhman Singh''', (9 October 1826 – 1896),<ref name=NWPOfficers1881>{{cite book |author=Govt. Sectt., N.W.P. and Oudh |title=History of services of gazetted officers employed under the government of the N.W.P. and Oudh |date=1881 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Govt. Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofservice00alla/page/143/mode/2up?q=Singh|page=143}}</ref> was an Indian [[deputy magistrate|deputy collector]] of the [[Bulandshahr District|district of Bulandshahr]], [[North-Western Provinces]] (NWP), [[British India|India]], and author of ''Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar'' (1874), commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of the NWP [[William Muir]].<ref name=Poswal2019>{{cite journal |last1=Poswal |first1=Alpna |title=Kuar Lachman Singh: an eye witness of 1857 and early local history writer |journal=Pragya Shikshan Shodh Rachna |date=January 2019 |volume=1 |issue=7 |pages=256-259 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vighnesh-Kumar-3/publication/385682400_KUAR_LACHMAN_SINGH_AN_EYE-WITNESS_OF_1857_AND_EARLY_LOCAL_HISTORY_WRITER/links/672f7914ecbbde716b642cc7/KUAR-LACHMAN-SINGH-AN-EYE-WITNESS-OF-1857-AND-EARLY-LOCAL-HISTORY-WRITER.pdf |issn=2319-8079}}</ref><ref name=Tyagi2023>{{cite journal |last1=Tyagi |first1=Kuldeep Kumar |last2=Kumar |first2=Vighnesh |last3=Tyagi |first3=Shivani |last4=Cour |first4=Manpreet |title=Revisiting Colonial British Imperialism through Governor General Lord Wellesley’s Agra-Delhi Plan in 1803 |journal=Contemporary Social Sciences |date=July 2023 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=136-141 |url=https://jndmeerut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/14.pdf}}</ref><ref name=Carlleyle1879>{{cite book |last1=Carlleyle |first1=A. C. L. |title=Report of Tours in the Central Doab and Gorakhpur in 1874-75 and 1875-76 |date=1879 |publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing |location=Calcutta |pages=27-35 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmtBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA27|language=en |chapter=9. Ahar}}</ref><ref name=Tewari1966>{{cite journal |last1=Tewari |first1=J. P. |title=The Revolt of 1857 in Bulandshahr District |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1966 |volume=28 |pages=365–376 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44140455 |issn=2249-1937|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Atkinson>{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Edwin T. |title=Statistical descriptive and historical account of the North-Western provinces of India |date=1876 |publisher=North-Western Provinces' Government Press |page=iii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBTc7SPqr2kC&pg=PA11|language=en}}</ref>{{efn|Muir's daughter had married [[William Lowe (civil servant)|William Lowe]], a former district collector in Bulandshahr.<ref name=Sketches1884>{{cite book |last1=Growse |first1=F. S. |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |date=1884 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |location=Benares |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bulandshahrorsk00growgoog/page/n118/mode/2up |language=English|chapter=3. The rebuilding of Bulandshahr|pages=66-79}}</ref>}} He also produced a Hindi translation from Sanskrit of ''[[Shakuntala (play)|Shakuntala]]'' and [[Meghadūta]].<ref name=Sketches1884/><ref name=Buckland>{{cite book |last1=Buckland |first1=Charles Edward |title=Dictionary of Indian biography |date=1906 |publisher=London S. Sonnenschein |location=London |page=60 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft/page/60/mode/2up?q=singh}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
*{{cite book |title=Historical and Statistical Memoir Of Zila Bulandshahar |date=1874 |publisher=The North Western Provinces Government Press, Allahabad |location=Allahabad |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11477/page/n1/mode/2up}} (with a note by [[William Muir]])

==Notes==
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