1 86 BHOODH SINGH EXPELLED. A.D. 1811.
2 said under his standard. The Phoolkea and Nihung
3 Misuls, which being settled east of the Sutlej, enjo3'ed
4 the advantage of British protection, and the Fyzoolla-
5 poorea, which had possessions on both sides that river,
6 and the head of which Boodh Singh Sirdar had
7 uniformly declined to give his personal attendance on
8 RuNJEET, complete the list which RuNJEET SiNGH
9 was aiming further to reduce. The conduct of BooDii
10 Singh at last brought down upon him the vengeance of
11 the Labor ruler. On the 19th September 1811, Dewan
12 MoHKUM Chund, attended by Jodh Singh Ram-
13 GURHEEA, and other Sirdars, entered the Jalundhur
14 Dooab, with the declared design of seizing the FyzooUa-
15 poorea possessions in the Punjab. Boodh Singh
16 waited not for the attack, but fled immediately to
17 Loodeeana for personal security. His troops, influenced
18 by the point of honor, made a resistance of some days,
19 before surrendering the principal forts of Jalundhur and
20 Puttee, but gave both up on the Gth and 7th of October,
21 before any impression had been made on the walls, or
22 defences, and after a needless sacrifice of lives. Boodh
23 Singh has since been content with the lot of a protected
24 Sikh chief, living on the means afforded by his posses-
25 sions East and South of the Sutlej. In December of
26 the same year, Nidiian Singh, son of the old
27 Ghuneea Chief Jy Singh, was deprived of the sepa-
28 rate Jageer assigned to him, in order to secure the
29 Sirdaree to his elder brother's widow, Suda Koonwur.
30 His person was seized and placed under restraint at
31 Labor, while a detachment marched to capture his two
32 forts of Hajeepoor and Phoolwara, no tie of affinity being
33 recognized as a motive for deviating from the systematic
34 prosecution of the course of policy, by which it appears