Sūdan (1700–1753) was the main
court poet of
Maharaja Suraj Mal, the
Bharatpur ruler in
Rajputana
Rājputana (), meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the entire present-day States of India, Indian state of Rajasthan, parts of the neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and adjo ...
. He was
Mathur by caste, resident of
Mathura
Mathura () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the states and union territories of India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located south-east of Delhi; and about from the town of Vrindavan. In ancient ti ...
and the most favourite poet of the
Bharatpur Maharaja Suraj Mal. He had accompanied the Maharaja during all important wars and has written historical account in the book named ''Sujān Charitra''.
See also
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Braj Bhasha
Braj is a language within the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Braj region in Western Uttar Pradesh centered on Mathura. Along with Awadhi, it was one of the two predominant literary languages of North-Central India before gradually ...
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Bharatpur
References
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Indian male poets
Hindi-language poets
Poets from Rajputana
History of Bharatpur, Rajasthan
18th-century Indian poets
18th-century male writers