1 RaAmdé strececds.
2 Tis victories over the
3 Mahomedan chiefs.
4 Is assassinated, 1714.
5 Ala Singh succeeds,
6 He defents the Rai
7 of Kot, 1731.
8 His troops slay the
9 imperial generaL
10 His fame increases.
11 He makes war on the
12 Bhattis.
13 Founds the fort of
14 Bhawanigarh, 1749.
15 326 MISTORY OF TIE PANJSAB,
16 of Nabhd, in A.D. 1652, in the seventieth year of the deceased’s age. Cer-
17 tain, however, it is that Phul died of apoplexy, contracted while a prisoner
18 of the Mahomedan Governor of Sirhind.
19 Phul was succeeded in the sardari by his second son, Rama, or Ram
20 Chand. He wasconstantly overrunning the Bhatti country, and he defeated
21 Hassan Khan, the chief of the tribe, near Chdndab, carrying away much
22 plunder, money, horses and cattle. He then made a raid into the territory
23 of Isa Khan, his father’s old enemy, defeated him, and carried away every-
24 thing of value on which he could lay his hands. He waged war with the
25 Mahomedan chief of Kot, and, after a desperate fight, defeated him, and then
26 plundered his camp, which was immensely rich. He was at length assas-
27 sinated, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, by the sons of Chen Singh,
28 his own sardar, in Malerkotla, in 1714 a.D., in avengement of the death
29 of their father.
30 Ra&ma was succeeded by his third son, the famous Ala Singh, the found-
31 er of the Patidld raj, born in 1695. He rebuilt Barndlé, which had fallen
32 into ruins, and made it the capital of his dominions. He then fought the
33 Rai of Kot, who had collected a large force, assisted by several chiefs,
34 among others, Jamal Khan, chief of Malerkotla, and Nawab Saiyad Asad
35 Ali Khan,* the Imperial faujdar of the Jalandar Doab. After a hard con-
36 tested engagement, the Sikhs carried the day. Asad Ali Khan was slain;
37 his troops fled, and their example was follewed by the rest. A large number
38 of the enemy’s troops were killed and many were made prisoners. This
39 victory was gained in 1731.
40 This brilliant success over the combined forces of the Rajputs and the
41 Pathans, spread terror throughout the neighbouring country, and tended
42 materially to strengthen the position of Ala Singh. The Sikhs across the
43 Sutlej flocked to his standard, and the number of his followers rapidly in-
44 creased. He conquered many villages and built new ones, His fame reached
45 Delhi, and the emperor, Mahomed Shah, deputed the viceroy, Mir Manni,
46 and Sami Yar Khan, with a fi°man (dated 21st Ramzan 1137 H.), asking
47 Ala Singh to assist in the management of Sirhind, and promising him the
48 title of raja if he acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the Imperial
49 court.
50 Ala Singh now made war on his hereditary foes, the Bhattis, under
51 Mahomed Amir Khan, son of Hassan Khan of Bhatner. He then joined
52 Ali Mahomed Khan,f the Rohilla faujdar of Sirhind, but was ultimately
53 thrown into prison, and would have perished in neglect had not one of his
54 devoted followers arranged for his release. In 1749 he built the fort of
55 Bhawénigarh, and three years afterwards, Gurbaksh Singh, Kabka, one of
56 his sardars, and his brother-in-law, conquered for him the district of Sund-
57 war; also known as Chowrasi (eighty-four), from the number of villages
58 * His cousins, Nawab Saiyad Fakir-ullah Khan and Nawab Sultan Ali Khan, were faujdars
59 of Thara and Ludhidna, respectively. The descendants of the family still flourish in the town
60 of Jagréon, in the Ludhiana District, and are respected for their Arabic learning. Saiyad
61 Rajab Ali Khan Arastu Jah, Mir Munshi to the late Board of Administration, was a great-
62 grandson of Nawab Fakir-ullah Khan. He died in September, 1869, and his two sons, Sharif
63 Hassan and Sharif Hussein, are alive at this moment.
64 + Ancestor of the Nawab of Rampur, in Rohilkhand. According to the author of Serul
65 AMutakharin, he was found on the roadside, when a baby of 1§ months. Dand Khan, an Afghan
66 Omerah of the time of Aurangzeb, picked this child up and adopted him, giving him the name
67 of Ali Mahomed Khan. He succeeded Dand Khan on his death, and became the chief man
68 in Bundelkhand. He fought Har Nand, the faujdar of Moradabad, and defeated him, the
69 faujdar being killed in this engagement. Nawab Kamr-ud-din Khan was then sent to chastise
70 “him. He was then imprisoned, but was again released, and restored to his dignity, on engaging
71 to serve loyally the imperial house.
72 + A town three miles south of Patiala.
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