1 120 HELD BY GOLAB SINGH.
2 The artillery played with some effect from
3 the adjoining eminence of Govindgarh ; but
4 after an investment of three months, the place
5 fell chiefly through famine. Himmat Khan,
6 the chief landed proprietor in the neighbour-
7 hood, together with others of consequence, had
8 been killed by Baland Khan, who appears to
9 have béen disliked. He was taken prisoner by
10 the Sikhs, and sent to Ramnagar. Raja
11 Ghiasuddin, the son of Himmat Khan, was left
12 governor. His cousin, Nur Khan, succeeded
13 him, and held the office for thirty years. He
14 was succeeded by Faizdad Khan. In 1808 the
15 Sikhs placed their own Thana or garrison in
16 the fort, and gave Himmat Khan’s family a
17 fourth share of the revenues; but five years
18 ago, in lieu of it, a jaghir in villages, worth
19 about five thousand rupees a-year, was settled
20 onthem. Misser Jassa, of the Zoshekhana, was
21 then made collector on the part of the Maharaja,
22 but two years and a half ago Raja Golab’Singh
23 succeeded in getting charge of the district him-
24 self. It consists of sixty-seven small villages,
25 and extends six kos to the south, seven to the
26 west, and about eight to the north; to the east-