Editing Hemu (section)

==Early life==

Contemporary accounts of Hemu's early life are incomplete due to his humble background and often biased because they were written by Mughal historians such as [[`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni|Bada'uni]] and [[Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak|Abu'l-Fazl]] who served in the court of Akbar. Modern historians differ on his family's ancestral home{{sfn|Richards|1995|p=13|ps=: Richards states that Hemu was a [[Vaishya]]. Others named him a Gaur Brahmin,{{sfn|Sarkar|1960|p=66}} a Dhūsar Bhargav{{sfn|Majumdar|1984|pp=94, 97}} a Dhusar who "are supposed to be a sub-division of Gaur Brahmins",{{sfn|Tripathi|1960|p=158}} a "Dhusar or Bhargava, who claim to be Gaur Brahmins",{{sfn|Chandra|2004|p=91}} a Dhusar, a "caste of the Vaish or Baniyas, who now claim to be Bharagava Brahmins",{{sfn|Qanungo|1965|p=448}} etc.}} and the place and year of his birth. What is generally accepted is that he was born into a Hindu family of limited means and spent his childhood in the town of [[Rewari]] southwest of Delhi. Modern research confirms that Hemu was born to Rai Puran Bhargav, a [[Gaur Brahmins|Gaur Brahmin]] of Rajasthan who became Puran Das after acquiring sainthood at the Macheri village of Alwar district in Rajasthan. Due to his family's financial condition, Hemu, at a young age, started working as a tradesman of [[saltpetre]].{{sfn|Tripathi|1960|p=158}}{{sfn|Sarkar|1960|p=66}}{{sfn|Majumdar|1984|p=94}}