Career
Both Laksha and Ari died in various skirmishes when Hammir was yet an infant; resultantly, Hammir grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Ajay, the second son of Laksha. Hammir gave his uncle an early proof of his valour when, at a young age, he killed a bandit named Munja who was wreaking havoc in the nearby area. It is said that this incident so impressed his uncle, that he forthwith invested Hammir with the claims of rulership. Actually, this investiture availed Hammir nothing; the clan were in exile and Mewar lay occupied.
The Khiljis had assigned their newly conquered territories to the administration of Maldeo, ruler of the nearby state of Jalore, who had allied with them during the recent war. In a bid to reconcile and co-opt the natives of the land to his rule, Maldeo arranged for the marriage of his widowed daughter Songari with Hammir, the scion of an impoverished cadet branch of the erstwhile ruling dynasty. Rana Hammir Singh re-established the state of Mewar in 1326 by engineering a coup d'état against his father-in-law. The dynasty thus founded by Hammir, who was descended in direct patrilineage from Bappa Rawal, came to be known as Sisodia after Sisoda, the mountain village whence Hammir hailed.
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