1 134 SUDAKOONWUR'S LANDS SOUTH OF SUTLEJ A. D. 1823.
2 likely to be felt injuriously when this prince shall succeed
3 his father.
4 Towards the beginning of April, Runjeet Singh
5 went to Ukhmur, in the Jummoo hills. His array was in
6 the field, under MisuR Dewan Chund, watching the
7 movements of Uzeem Kfian, who had come down to
8 Peshawur ; where being joined by the fugitive Jageerdar,
9 Jy Singh Atareewala, he was pushing back the Sikh
10 posts and garrisons towards the Indus, and even threaten-
11 ed Khyrabad, the principal station held by them on the
12 western bank. In June, Runjeet returned to his
13 capital, without achieving any enterprize of note.
14 Amongst the possessions of SuDA KooNWUR, was a
15 small territory, called Himmutpoor Wudnee, lying south
16 of the Sutlej, and held by her under grant from Runjeet
17 Singh, made in September 1808, in consideration of a
18 payment of 15,000 rupees. This territory being on the
19 protected side of the Sutlej, could not be confiscat-
20 ed with the rest. Runjeet Singh, however, compel-
21 led his mother-in-law to execute in his favor, a deed
22 of relinquishment of right to the territory, and armed
23 with this, his agent proceeded to take forceable posses-
24 sion. Upon resistance, however, by Suda Koonwur's
25 manager, and complaint to the British authorities, this
26 deed was at first not admitted as valid, and the lands were
27 ordered to i)e left in the former management. They
28 continued thus to be preserved from the grasp of the
29 Labor ruler, until 1828, when upon further representa-
30 tion, the Supreme Government consented to Runjeet
31 Singh's assuming them under his management. Suda