1 On the 26th January 1864, Raja Sarup Singh died of nj
2 severe dysentery, from which he had been suffering for
3 He was at the time residing at, his
4 country-seat of Bazidpur, near Pattiala, and had been
5 But the
6 several months.
7 _THE JHIND STATE.
8 attended occasionally by an English doctor.
9 Raja had unfortunately a superstitious belief in the
10 efficacy of the prescriptions of any wandering mendicant,
11 one of whom is said to have administered to him a
12 decoction of copper coin, which nearly caused his death
13 at the time; wad in all probability shortened his life.
14 Sarup Singh was in “his fifty-first year when he died ; is emrcter
15 Names.
16 13. Nawab of Malerkotla,
17 14. Raja of Faridkot,
18 15. Ditto Chamba, 56
19 16. Ditto Suket,
20 17. Sirdar of Kalsia, =...
21 18. Nawab of Patodi, ...
22 19, Ditto Iuharu,
23 20, Ditto Dujana,
24 21. Rana of Bhagal,
25 22, Ditto
26 . 23. Ditto
27 24, Ditto
28 25. Ditto
29 26. Ditto
30 27. Ditto
31 28. Ditto
32 Jubal,
33 Kuroharees, sie
34 Bhajji,
35 Mailog,
36 Balsan,
37 Dhani,
38 Kuthar,
39 29, Rai of Kunthar, i
40 30. Rana of Mangal, sie
41 31. Thakar of Bija, oe
42 32,. Rana of Bhagat,
43 33. Ditto Darkuti,
44 34. Thakar of Tazoch, ...
45 Revenue. Population.
46 -« 1,64,000
47 ae 2,500 °
48 This list cannot be considered ‘conclusive as regards the relative position
49 of the group 8-20, and group 21-34, The latter are the minor Hill Chiefs
50 of Simla, and have never met the former in Durbar, Should they meet,
51 46,200
52 51,000
53 120,000
54 44,552
55 62,000
56 6,600
57 18,000
58 6,390
59 22,350
60 17,262
61 7,829
62 9,001
63 7,358
64 4,892
65 2,853
66 3,990
67 1,906
68 917
69 981
70 612
71 3,082
72 373
73 Salute.
74 9 guns,
75 ”.
76 il
77 1
78 ”
79 it is not improbable that Bhagal and Jubal might receive a step in rank.
80 The position of Pattiala and Bahawalpur is that observed at the visit
81 of the Duke of. Edinburgh in 1870, the only time that these Chiefs have
82 met on any occasion of State ceremony.
83 _ intended to be necessarily final. The Nawab of Bahawalpur was a child of
84 But the order then fixed was not
85 The death of
86 Raja Sarup
87 Singh, 4p. 1864,
88 ten years of age, and the question of his relative ‘precedence will be con-