1 Death of Raja
2 Sangat Singh of Jhind,
3 2nd November 1834,
4 The betrothal of
5 Prince Nau Nehal
6 Singh, 1834
7 Ladakh rendered
8 tributary by the
9 Jammu Rajas, 1834,
10 The MaharAjé again
11 asserts his superior
12 rights to Sindh, 1836,
13 And punishes the
14 Mazirfs of Rojhan on
15 the Sindh frontier for
16 raids in Sikh territory.
17 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh fi
18 472 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB.
19 at’ Amritsar, the Mahardj4 proceeded to Batdla, and pitched his camp on
20 the bank of Shamsher Khan’s tank. This being the jasir of Prince Sher
21 Singh, his son, Kanwar Partéb Singh, in the absence of his father on duty
22 at the frontier, offered a naza7 of an elephant, two horses and Rs. 2,100,
23 together with 101 trays of sweetmeats, to the Mahardj4, which was ac-
24 cepted, and the prince was presented with a khilat of honour. The
25 Mahard4j4 next went to Sidlkot, and having received there the respects of
26 Prince Peshora Singh, he proceeded to Jhelum, and encamped in the
27 neighhourhood of Rohtds.
28 Here news reached him of the death of his ally, Rajd Sangat Singh, of
29 Jhind, which event occurred in Basia on the 2nd of November, The
30 Mahardaj4 was much grieved to hear of the raja’s death, as he was one of his
31 most valued and trusted friends. The deceased was only twenty-three years
32 of age when he died. At Rohtds certain sardars presented their swords
33 to the Mahardjd, and were ordered for service at Peshdwar. The Mahardjé
34 then returned to Lahore. The year 1834 closed with the betrothal of Prince
35 Nau Nehal Singh to the daughter of Sardar Sham Singh of Atari.
36 Early in 1834 Zordwar Singh, Commander of Rajé Goldb Singh’s forces
37 in Kishtwér, taking advantage of dissensions which prevailed among the
38 reigning family of Ladakh, deposed the rdjé and set up his rebellious minister
39 in his stead. A Sikh garrison was placed in Leh, the capital of Ladakh,
40 and a tribute of Rs. 80,000 fixed. In vain did the deposed raéja& complain
41 to the Chinese Minister at Lassa ; he was not inclined to interfere, as the
42 rdja’s successor continued to pay the fixed subsidy regularly. On his return
43 to Jammu, Zordwar Singh was sent to Lahore with presents, the products
44 of the country reduced by him. The Mahardja was pleased to receive these
45 presents and was amused to hear from the adventurous Zordwar Singh that,
46 if ordered by the Maharaja, he was ready to carry his arms to the borders of
47 the Chinese empire.
48 The idea of supremacy in Sindh recurred to the mind of Ranjit Singh,
49 on the discomfiture of the Amirs in that country by Shah Shuja, and that
50 monarch’s subsequent return to Ludhiana, after being beaten at Kandahar
51 by the Barakzai brothers. A promise to surrender Shikérpur was made to
52 him by Ntr Muhammad Khan, of Hydradbdad, on condition of a guarantee
53 being given against the designs of the ex-king. But Ranjit Singh had little
54 confidence in the promise of the Sindhians, and his active interference in the
55 affairs beyond the Indus continued unabated. Sawan Mal, the Governor of
56 Multdén, sent Malla Singh, the son of Jodh Singh, at the head of a force
57 to punish the Mazaris of Rojhdn, who had made raids on the Sikh posts, and,
58 in an action fought between the Sikhs and the Mazdri freebooters, a hundred of.
59 the latter were killed. Ndhar Singh was subsequently sent inthe direction
60 of Rojhén, at the head of a detachment of troops and one gun, to restore
61 order on the Sikh frontier. The Mahardjd also maintained Ghulém Shah
62 Kolhara, a chief who was expelled by the T'alpurs, to whom a jdgir had been
63 assigned from Kdébul, A suitable pension was assigned to this representa-
64 tive of the Kolhdra family by the Maharajé at Rojhan, the seat of the
65 Mazdris. Ranjit Singh again urged upon the British Government his
66 superior claims to Shikérpur, contending that it was a dependency of the
67 chiefs of Khordsdn, and hinting, at the same time, that the river below
68 Mithan Kot was not a tributary of the Indus, but of the Sutlej, “the river
69 of the treaty,” and,in the words of the eloquent Fakir Aziz-ud-din, “the
70 stream which had so long given freshness and beauty to the emblematic
71 garden of their friendship, ars which continued its fertilizing’ way to the
72 ocean, S¢parating, yeb uniting, the realms of the to brotherly. :
73 i aSbrary : Namdhariel Oe ortne