1 His titles.
2 His death, 1864,
3 Hanir Singh founds
4 Nabha, 1755.
5 His conquests.
6 \ He is taken prisoner
7 . by the Raja of Jhind,
8 1774.
9 His death, 1783.
10 His widow, Mai Desu,
11 acts as regent for her
12 minor son Jaswant
13 Singh.
14 Jaswant Singh puts
15 himself under British
16 protection.
17 His services.
18 His death, 1840,
19 Devind: i
20 Bice ar Singh
21 His incapacity,
22 332 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
23 of his salutes and trays of presents increased. The honorary title,
24 Farzand Dilband Rastk-ul-itikédd Rdjd Sarup Singh Bahddur Walt
25 Jhind, was bestowed upon him, and many other concessions were granted
26 him: The Bddrukhdn chiefs, near Sangrir, were made his feudatories, and
27 provision was made for the succession in the event of a minority, or death
28 of a chief without having appointed a successor. He was nominated Knight
29 Grand Commander of the Star of India in September, 1863, but died of
30 acute dysentery on the 26th of January, 1864, He was succeeded by his
31 son Raghbhir Singh, a fine soldier and a man of great tact and judgment.
32 THE NABHA FAMILY.
33 The Nabhd family, with that. of Jhind, has descended from the same
34 ancestor, Tiloka, eldest son of Phul. Hamir Singh, grandson of Tiloka,
35 a brave and enterprising chief, founded the town of Nabhé in 1755. He
36 conquered many villages, and joined Ala Singh of Patidlé in his expedition
37 against Zen Khan, the Afghan governor of Sirhind, who was slain in action,
38 the tract of country known as Amloh, having fallen to his share. In 1776
39 he conquered Rori from Rah{m Dad Khan, the Moghal Governor of Hansi,
40 and coined money in his capital.
41 Hamir Singh’s successes and popularity about this time were due greatly
42 to the ability of his dewdn, popularly known as wbba, or the hunchbacked.
43 But he did not live in perfect security, owing to the insatiable avarice of
44 his predatory neighbour, Gajpat Singh, the Raja of Jhind. The latter, in
45 1774, found some pretext for invading the Nabhé& territory, took Hamir
46 Singh prisoner, and wrested from him the important town of Sangrir, which
47 was never afterwards restored.
48 Hamir Singh died in 1783, leaving a son and heir, Jaswant Singh, eight
49 years old. During his minority the affairs of the State were conducted
50 by his mother, Mai Desu, who died in 1790. She was a woman of great
51 courage and resoliition, and, during the imprisonment of her husband, re-
52 covered most of his territory, which had been forcibly seized by the Jhind
53 raja. Jaswant Singh entered into an alliance with the British Government,
54 wher Holkar, the Mahratta Prince, was advancing northward to Ldhore,
55 and refused to aid the latter in any way. Perceiving also that friendship
56 with Ranjit Singh, the grasping Mahardj& of the Panjdb, was dangerous,
57 he put himself under British protection, along with the other chiefs of
58 Malwa and Sirhind, 1809. A sanad, signed by the Governor-General, was
59 granted to him, exempting him from payment of all tribute, and confirming
60 him in the enjoyment of all ancient privileges. All the other chiefs of
61 the Cis-Sutlej States had the same privileges conferred on them by the
62 proclamation dated 3rd May, 1809.
63 In September 1810, Mahomed Akber Shah, emperor of Delhi, conferred
64 on the raja the title of Bdrdér Bédns Sdrmour Malvindra Bahddur.
65 The réjé was a faithful ally of the British Government. When Holkar,
66 the Mahratta, halted at Nabha, in 1804, and demanded the rajé’s aid against
67 the British Government, he had the firmness to refuse all assistance to
68 him, pleading frankly his engagements with the latter Government. He
69 assisted the British in the Gorkha campaign, and in tho expedition to
70 Bikaner, and, during the march of the British troops to Kabul, advanced
71 the Government a loan of six lakhs of rupees. The réjé died on the
72 22nd of May 1840, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and was succeeded by
73 his son, Devindar Singh.
74 Devindar Singh did not promise to be a successful ruler, From boyhood
75 he was surrounded by flatterers and parasites, who impressed upon his
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