![]() ![]() The Minister of Mukunda Dev II, Jai Rajguru was brutally killed fighting against the British. ![]() Subsequently, they imprisoned King Mukunda Dev II. Colonel managed to get Maludar Fateh Mahammad into his fold and entered Odisha. Mukunda Dev II was the then king of Odisha. Colonel’s scheme was to conquer Puri via Chilika Lake. To achieve this, the first target was to make a treaty with Deogan and slowly bring Odisha under the Company’s control. Colonel Harkot, who was in-charge of the British East India Company in 1803, was planning to capture Odisha, which was strategically placed between Bengal and Madras, after the British had conquered Bengal in the North and Madras in the South. The Great Paika Rebellion of 1817 happened under the leadership of Buxi Jagabandhu, the commander of the forces of the King of Khordha. ![]()
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