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Rafa'at wa Awal-i-Martabat Maharaja Shri Chet Singh Sahib Bahadur (died 29 March 1810), commonly known as Raja Chet Singh, a Bhumihar Brahmin king from the Narayan dynasty, was 3 rd ruler of Kingdom of Benaras in northern India.[1]
Chet Singh succeeded his father, Maharaja Balwant Singh, to the throne as the next Raja of Benares in 1770. Although the Nawab of Awadh still wished to hold total suzerainty over the control of Beneras, the British authorities encouraged him to recognise Chet Singh as King in 1773. Two years later, the Nawab, by now fed up with British interference, transferred the domain to the East India Company under control of the Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings. Under the new British terms, Chet Singh was forced to contribute cavalry and maintenance grants for the company's sepoy battalions. The Raja refused to do this and he began to secretly correspond with enemies of the Company in hopes of forcibly breaking the increasing control of the company in India. The company discovered his plan with the help of some traitors and tried to place him under house arrest in August 1781, pending interview with Hastings.
- ^ Yang, A. A. (1989). The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920 (1st ed.). United Kingdom: United Kingdom: University of California Press. pp. 66–69. ISBN 9780520057111.