Chiefs And Families Of Note

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4He returned to Jhamba, and shortly afterwards took-

5possession of twenty-eight villages in the Bahor Ilaka He

6next joined with Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Chief of Kot

7apura, an hai Desa Singh, in the spoliation of Bahak

8Bodia, which was divided among the a lies In Z t

9fashion Rnrlh c- u ■ . S aiJIes in the usual

10; Budh Singh receiving one-eighth. He died at

11Kaithal after a fighting career of thirty-four years in which

12period he managed to acquire lands yielding Rs 'saooo in

13™ th H e ll T : k T gh was billed in an endeavour

14to push the family boundaries beyond what his father

15exchan^ed^the S ^ rf Smgh ’ ne P hew of Tek Singh,

16exchanged the Sarhand lands for twelve villages in fhe

17Adampur Ilaka, with the Maharaja of Patiala. In the time

18of is successor Faujdar Singh, the Babarpur possessions wel

19lost in a quarrel with the Raja of Nabha. After Fauidar

20Singh came Mahar Singh, who in i8« 71 ^^ujdar

21• T u , ,, , 45 ’ I5 3 5. received hve villao-pcj

22in the Jhamba Ilaka from the Maharaja Karam Sim?h & of

23atiala m exchange for Bahor lands. But owing to a quarrel

24over the details the Maharaja refused possession ; and in

25orlrf -T Mahar Si "* h «» worsted. H

26promptly placed himself under the protection of the Gover-

27General s Agent at Ambala, who decided the case in

28his favour I and the villages were duly made over Th

29brothers Mahar Singh and Kandla s;„ I cc The

30Of the property in ,TJ l 7 gh effecte<J a

31bytheBriS •Ihl f 3 * he C0UMr y was taken over

32uy tne British. I he former received the villages of lb. u

33Hasana, Bahujatri, Piori and Ghagar with half of n h

34and a portion of Bahak Bodia. M^hlr S „g fdt

35He is supposed to have been poisoned by his brothel t

36appointed agents of the property; but their oppression^

37sartor oTt th d em so r popular that ** ££

38with tU h L f . the deceased > attacked and slew them

39e approbation of the country side. This crime was