1 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. il
2 morning Shere Singh, learning that the Rajah
3 Dhyan Singh had reached the ‘left bank of the
4 Ravee, went to visit him. The Maharajah and shore singh
5 Dhyan Singh then proceeded towards the city Hei
6 and the lines of the soldiers. The Rajah now
7 ordered Goolab Singh and Heera Singh to cease
8 their fire, as it did not become brothers and rela-
9 tives to be thus quarrelling with and destroying
10 each other. In the course of three days, Chund Chund Koon-
11 Koonwur was left helpless and nearly deserted. wa” = “"*""
12 In the year 1897 Bik, a.p. 1841, Shere Singh was Shere singh
13 seated or the throne of Lahore. All the Sirdars, ates oF ‘he
14 with the exception of the Scindinwala, paid their “"""
15 allegiance. In consequence, the territory of that Uttur Singi’s
16 powerful family was confiscated, and orders sent to focatee
17 the Sikh Amy.in the Hill States to bring Lena
18 Singh, a younger brother of Uttur Singh, a prisoner
19 to Lahore. Uttur Singh himself, and his nephew
20 Ajeet Singh, escaped across the Sutlej, with the
21 intention of supplicating the aid of the British Intends to
22 Government to expel Shere Singh, and establish British Gos
23 the mother of Nonehal as Ranee. The army
24 which Lena Singh Scindinwala then commanded at
25 Kumlagurh replied to the order of the Maharajah,
26 that they would bind themselves on oath to brmg
27 the Scindinwala. to Lahore, but not as a prisoner.
28 On arriving at Lahore, Lena Singh was surrounded
29 by Shere Singh’s troops ; and, sceing no alternative,
30 his adherents were obliged to deliver him up to 497.5080
31 Shere Singh, by whom he was immediately im- 274 imprison-
32 prisoned.