Vitthal Sundar

{{short description|Prime Minister of Hyderabad}}

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| title = Raja Pratapwant Bahadur

| succession = Prime Minister of the Hyderabad

| image = Vitthal Sundar's Samadhi.JPG

| caption = Samadhi (memorial commemorating the dead) of Vitthal Sundar Parashurami

| alt = a 5 foot square, castle-like white tomb of stone blocks

| name = Vitthal Sundar Parshurami

| predecessor = Basalat Jung

| successor = Musa Khan Nawab Rukn ud-Daula

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| death_date = 10 August 1763

| death_place = Rakshasbhuvan {{small|(present day in Beed district, Maharashtra)}}

| father = Sundar Narayan Parshurami

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| reign = 8 July 1762 – 10 August 1763

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Vitthal Sundar Parshurami, also Vithal Sundar (died 10 August 1763), was a diplomat and the Prime Minister of Hyderabad (or Diwan) during the reign of Nizam Ali Khan (Asaf Jah II). When Khan was appointed Subedar of the Deccan on 8 July 1762, he immediately appointed Sunder his Diwan and conferred upon him the title Raja Pratapwant.{{cite book | title=Hyderabad, 400 Glorious Years| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ixuAAAAMAAJ| author=K. Chandraiah| publisher=K. Chandraiah Memorial Trust| year=1998| page=73}} Sunder belonged to the Hindu Deshastha Brahmin sub-caste of Maharashtra.{{cite book | title=New History of the Marathas: The Expansion of the Maratha Power, 1707-1772| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CAIAQAAIAAJ| author=Govind Sakharam Sardesai (rao bahadur)| publisher=Phoenix Publications| year=1948| page=468}}{{cite book | title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: P-Z| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tW_eEVbVxpEC| author=Tony Jaques| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| year=2007| page=838}}{{cite book | title=Battle of Kharda: Challenges and Responses| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrxAAAAAMAAJ| author1=G. T. Kulkarni| author2=M. R. Kantak| publisher=Deccan College, Post-Graduate & Research Institute| year=1980| page=43}}{{cite book | title=Journal of the University of Bombay, Volume 27| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFlwAAAAIAAJ| page=12| publisher=University of Bombay| year=1958}} Sundar was the Nizam's commander-in-chief during the Battle of Rakshasbhuvan against the Maratha Confederacy on 10 August 1763, and was killed in the battle.{{cite book | title=The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Maratha Supremacy| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXtDAAAAYAAJ| page=829| author=Ramesh Chandra Majumdar| publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan| year=1977}}