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2 to Lahore and beheaded at the Nakhaskhand, or horse market, now known
3 as Shahidganj, in the Landa Bazar of Lahore. When these persecutions
4 were over, Jassa Singh appeared on the banks of the Sutlej, where he seized
5 on an extensive territory. At the same time the Bhangi sardars, Hari
6 Singh and Jhandd Singh, were devastating the country by their marauding
7 excursions. The Lahore viceroy sent Lachmi Narain, an officer of the
8 darbaér, with a large force to punish the Sikhs, who were again defeated
9 with great loss, A.D. 1745, Jassa Singh taking refuge in the hills north
10 of the Sutlej. Zakaria Khan died the same year, and two years after, Jassa
11 Singh, assisted by other chiefs, made a raid on Kastr, but their attention
12 was diverted by the advance of Ahmad Shah, Durrani, who inflicted on the
13 Sikhs a signal defeat in the neighbourhood of Sirhind.
14 Ahmad Shah had scarcely left the frontiers of the Panj&b, when Jassa
15 Singh attacked Rajé Gurdit Mal, deputy of Mir Mann, commonly known
16 as Nawab Moin-i-ul-Mulk, viceroy of Lébore, near Hoshiarpur, but was
17 repulsed. He then marched into Amritsar and slew Salébat Khan, the
18 governor, and captured a great portion of the district. In 1749, Jassa,
19 Singh assisted Koura Mal, the dewa4n of Mir Mannt, in expelling Shah-
20 nawaéz Khan, who had been appointed, by the Delhi emperor, viceroy of
21 Multan. A closely-coutested battle was fought between the troops of the de-
22 wén and those of Shahnawdz Khan in the neighbourhood of Multan, in
23 which the latter was killed, and his troops were completely routed. Jassa
24 Singh returned with his share of the booty, and honours were conferred upon
25 him by the Léhore viceroy.
26 In 1753, Jassa Singh defeated Aziz Khan, commander of the Léhore
27 forces, and, two years afterwards, he gained. a decisive victory vver Adina
28 Beg Khan, Governor of the Jalandar Dodb, at Kadr, compelling the Khan to
29 cede to him Fattehabad on the Bids. A eunuch in high favour with the
30 Lahore court, was.one Umed Khan, who was sent at the head of troops
31 . against the Kaldl chief. Jassa Singh killed Umed Khan in action, and, soon
32 after this, completely defeated Aziz Khan, the commander whom Adina Beg
33 Khan had sent against him. When Ahmad Shah was engaged in his great
34 campaign against the Mahrattas at Pdnipat in 1761, Jassa Singh was not
35 idle. He plundered Sirhind and Dialpur, seized Dogar, and Nypal in the
36 Ferozepur district, where he built fortified posts, and captured Jagrdon and
37 Kot Isa Khan, on the other side of the Sutlej from Kadar Baksh Khan.
38 About the middle of the same year, he seized Hoshiarpur, Bhiroz and Narain-
39 garh in Ambdla, and levied tribute from Rae Ibrahim Bhatti, chief of Ka-
40 pirthalla. He then penetrated into Jhang, south of Léhore, but was unable
41 ’ to obtain a footing there, in consequence of the bold front shown by Ahmad
42 Khan, the Sial chief. After the departure of Ahmad Shah, in February 1761,
43 Jassa Singh, with other Sikh sardars, again attacked Sirhind, when Obed
44 Khan, the Lahore governor, was shut up within the walls of the latter city.
45 He then took Laliana, Govindwal, Saliala and Bhopala, and extended his
46 conquests as far as Taran Taran. Having then crossed the Bias, he cap-
47 tured Sultanpur and Talwandi. After the great battle at Barnala, called
48 by the Sikhs Gulliéghdérdé, in which the combined forces of the confeder-
49 acies were thoroughly defeated by Ahmad Shah on the. 10th of February
50 1772, an expedition was made by the Durrdni king against Jassa Singh,
51 who, with the assistance of the Phulkias and Nishanwdlds, had expelled
52 _his garrisons from Sirhind and was desolating the country. The Sikhs
53 were completely defeated in this battle, and Jassa Singh, with the other
54 Sikh chiefs, fled to the Kangra, hills. ; ;
55 After the departure of Ahmad Shah, Jassa Singh, with the Bhangi,
56 Slaughter of the
57 Sikhs.
58 The Sikhs are again
59 defeated near the
60 Sutlej, 1745.
61 Death of Zakaria
62 Khan, 1745.
63 The Sikhs defeated
64 by Ahmad Shab near
65 Sirhind, 1747.
66 Jassa Singh assists
67 Koura Mal in seizing
68 Multan, 1749,
69 Hostilities with the
70 Mahomedan govern-
71 ment, 1753-65.
72 Jassa Singh’s con-
73 quests.
74 He is defeated by
75 Ahmad Shah,
76 And escapes to
77 Kangra.
78 Reappears and falls
79 on Kasur,
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