1 AHLUWALIA MISL. 313
2 his example was followed by his relations and friends. He, like the rest of
3 the chiefs, had a weakness for coveting the property of other people, which
4 led to his becoming a notorious robber. Petty acts of dacoity could not
5 satisfy the ravenous appetite of this knight of the highway. A more’
6 savoury and appetising banquet was required for the insatiable maw of this
7 brigand. His success in his petty foraging expeditions, daily attracted large
8 numbers of horsemen to his banner. With these he was enabled to acquire
9 considerable territory. He levied tribute and blackmail upon all the villages
10 he subdued or passed through, which considerably increased both his wealth
11 and his influence. Complaints having been brought to him of the existence
12 of the practice of cow-slaughtering in the territory under Shekh Subhdn, the
13 Sajjada Nishin of the famous shrine of the Mahomedan saint, Farid, sur-
14 named Shakarganj,in Pakpattan, he resolved upon attacking his jagir.
15 Having collected a large number of troops, he proceeded to Pakpattan,
16 where he was opposed by the Mussalmans, under the Shekh, the guardian
17 of the shrine. In this engagement, Hira Singh’s plundering career was
18 brought to a close by a bullet-wound in the head. The Sikhs were dis-
19 persed with great loss, and returned to Bharwdl. Shekh Subhaén pursued
20 them with 4,000 cavalry, killing a great number of them. On the death
21 of Hira Singh. his son, Dal Singh, being a minor, his nephew, Nahar Singh,
22 son of Natha Singh, became the head of the misl. Nahar Singh occupied
23 the masnad of chiefship for nine months, but was killed in a fight at Kot
24 Kamalia in 1768, and was succeeded by his younger brother Ran Singh.
25 Ran Singh became a powerful chief. The territory under his control
26 was worth nine lakhs of rupees per annum, and comprised Chitnian, part
27 of Kastr, Sharakpur, Gugera, and, at one time, Kot Kamalia. The con-
28 His rise to power.
29 He fights with Shekh
30 Subhin, the hereditary
31 guardian of the shrine
32 of Farid, Shakarganj,
33 in Pakpattan.
34 Is defeated and
35 slain.
36 Is succeeded by his
37 nephew, Nahar Singh.
38 Nahar Singh killed,
39 1768,
40 Ran Singh succeeds.
41 federacy could muster for service in the field two thousand horsemen, *
42 besides camel swivels, and a few guns. He fought Kumar Singh of Sayad-
43 wald, which he subdued, and died in 1781.
44 Ran Singh was succeeded by his eldest son, Bhagwan Singh, who mar-
45 ried his sister, Musammat Raj Kour, to Ranjit Singh, son of Maha Singh,
46 Sukerchakia. Wazir Singh, brother of Kumar Singh, recovered Sayadwald
47 from Bhagwan Singh, who was himself killed in an action, being succeeded
48 by his brother Gian Singh. The death of Bhagwan Singh was avenged by
49 Dal Singh, son of Sardar Hira Singh, who killed Wazir Singh, but was
50 afterwards himself assassinated, at Bharwal, by a servant of Wazir Singh,
51 who had resolved on avenging his master’s death. Gian Singh died in 1807,
52 leaving a son, Sardar Kahan Singh. At length Ranjit Singh, on attaining
53 power, subdued the Nakai misl, and seized all the possessions of the family,
54 a jégir of Rs. 15,000 per annum being given to Kahan Singh, the representa-
55 tive of the family in the neighbourhood of Bharwal. Kahan Singh recently
56 died at Lahore at a very advanced age.
57 5.—_THE AHLUWALIA JUST.
58 This misl derived its name from the village Ahlu, five kos to the east
59 of Lahore, founded by Sadao Singh a Jdt, kaldl, or distiller. He had four
60 sons, Gopal Singh, Hamm, Sekandar and Chaka, and the only thing
61 known about them is that the three younger brothers lived at Lahore,
62 where a street built by Chakd still exists. The eldest, Gopal Singh, had
63 a son, Dewa Singh, who had three sons, Gurbaksh Singh, Sadr Singh and
64 Badr Singh. Badr Singh married the sister of one Bhég Singh, or Bhagu,
65 a distiller of the Tulsi. This man Bhdgu (as he was originally called)
66 lived in very indigent circumstances, and, having removed his business
67 from Ahlu, settled in Mohalla Telpura, in the environs of Lahore; close to
68 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh) i eLibrary
69 Dies, 1781.
70 Bhagwan Singh
71 succeeds,
72 Is killed.
73 Gian Singh succeeds.
74 Dies, 1807.
75 Ranjit Singh seizes
76 all the possessions of
77 the family.
78 Collapse of the mis?.
79 Sadao Singh founds
80 the misi.
81 His four sons, Gopal
82 Singh, Hammu,
83 Sekandar and Chaka.
84 Badr Singh, son of
85 Gopal Singh, marries
86 the sister of Bhag
87 Singh, a distiller.
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