Yashwantrao Holkar
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Chakrāvarti Yashwant Rao Holkar (1776–1811) also known as Jaswantrao Holkar belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Maratha Confederacy was the Maharaja of the Indore. He was a gifted military leader and educated in accountancy as well as literate in Persian and Marathi and Urdu.
Maratha chief Yashwantrao Holkar (left) meeting with Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh (right). This image is known to be the earliest painting depicting Ranjit Singh.
Chhatri of Maharaja Yashwantrao Holkar at Bhanpura
Maratha State in 1805
David Ochterlony
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Major-General Sir David Ochterlony, 1st Baronet GCB was a Massachusetts born military officer of the East India Company in British India. He held the powerful post of British Resident to the Mughal court at Delhi.
Watercolor by an anonymous Delhi artist of Sir David Ochterlony in Indian dress smoking a hookah ca. 1820s
Shaheed Minar, Kolkata, built as a memorial to Sir David Ochterlony.