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...an), the founder of the Sikh principality of Nakai Misl, one of the twelve Sikh Confederacies that ruled from (1748-1810). Sardar Ishar Singh Sandhu, was one of the many children of the Nakai Sikh Sardars of Baherwal Kalan. During the late 1800s, Before the Ghadar Lehr, and the A

...who lived at Vadala Viram, near Amritsar. He identifies himself with the Sikh elan and ascendancy and recalls with pride the glorious days of Ranjit Sing ...places. He describes with admiration the deeds of heroism and sacrifice of sardars such as Sham Singh Atarivala and Ranjodh Singh. The historical framework th

...Singh was the prologue to a longdrawn drama of intrigue and murder at the Sikh court.

...defensive alliance but which succeeded in obtaining information about the Sikh kingdom, its military resources, and the character of its ...t SinghMinto correspondence and Ochterlony's proclamation to the cisSutlej Sardars, dated 3 May 1809; and miscellaneous despatches connected with early Britis

'''JODH SINGH RAMGARHIA''' (d. 1815), soldier and feudatory chief in Sikh times, was the eldest son of [[Jassa Singh Ramgarhia]], the celebrated Ramg ...co.uk/postgurus/ramgarhia2/ram%20Jassa%20Singh.htm Annals of the Ramgarhia Sardars]| Publisher=Amritsar| Year=1902| ID=ISBN}}

...Wazir Dhian Singh. In 1839, he served under Kanvar Nau Nihal Singh in the Sikh army sent to Peshawar to assist Colonel Claude Wade in Shahzada Taimur's ex ...and saved his jagirs and command. He continued thereafter to serve in the Sikh army, retaining his influence at the court.

...gh felt irked when British troops were stationed at Lahore after the Anglo-Sikh war of 1845-46. ...(21 February 1849). He surrendered to the British along with the Atarivala sardars at Rawalpindi in March 1849.

...WITH JATS OF BHARATPUR'''. Hindu Jats, who have ethnic affinity with the Sikh Jatts of the Punjab, had emerged, like the Sikhs, as a new political po ...of about 10,0 Sikh sardars. The meeting began with ardas, the supplicatory Sikh prayer, in which they pleaded, "Jawahar Singh, son of Suraj Mall and a devo

...ought in the battles against Ahmad Shah Abdali in collaboration with other Sardars. ...leaving Lahore. On the 15th January 1767, Ahmad Shah wrote letters to the Sardars, including Khushal Singh, to the effect that if they were desirous of enter

...y engagements concerning the relations of Gulab Singh of Jammu with the Sikh kingdom are also provided. The author, well versed in literature, history, ...ce of five years, rulers, princes, ministers, their relatives and numerous sardars fell victims, one after another, to conspiracy and murder. The only survivo

...e Khalsa initiatory rites at the hands of Diwan Darbara Singh, a prominent Sikh leader of the post Banda Singh period. By 1734, Dasaundha Singh was a leadi 2. Seetal, Sohan Singh, The Sikh Misals and the Panjab. Ludhiana, n.d.

...Rai Singh, after the fall of the Sikh Kingdom in 1849, were made the Sikh Sardars, of some villages, and given Jagirs, by the British. ...ory of the Sikh rise to the power in Punjab and the complete legitimacy of Sikh domination. He was requested by Captain Murray, Agent to the Governor-Gener

The Sikh sardars had occupied large portions of the Punjab by 1780, but some Muslim chiefs, ...undary with Sardar Mahan Singh, and were always a source of trouble to the Sikh chieftain. Quite frequently they raided his territory and looted and plunde

...After Ahmad Shah Abdali's retirement from the Punjab in 1763, the Kanaihva Sardars, allied with Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Hari Singh Bhangi and Jassa Singh Ramga ...ided to sack the ruler of Kasur and teach a lesson to the guilty. The Sikh Sardars besieged the kot (fortress) of Abdul Rahim Khan and occupied it shortly. Fo

...to the writings of some historians, about two and a half lakhs (250,000) [[Sikh]] families—men, women and children of all ages were martyred at this site ...reward for the head of any Sikh. Rewards were even offered for info on any Sikh's whereabouts. Hundreds of Sikhs were thus brought daily to Lahore where, r

...collected 4,00,000 rupees as his share of the booty. He joined other Sikh sardars in laying siege to [[Sirhind]] in January 1764 and razed it to the ground a [[Category:Great Sikh Warriors]]

...civil and military administrator, and one of the principal sardars of the Sikh court. Of all the Majithias associated with the ruling family of Lahore, ...c and designer of ordnance. He cast shrapnel shells made of pewter for the Sikh artillery. He invented gun shell that would explode at a fixed place and ti

...en Sikh Bands before Maharaja Ranjit Singh, @ Sikh History.com [http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/misls.html] ...lled Bhangi because of their use of Bhang. (They were also called Dhillon Sardars)

...broadly followed the pattern of Mughal awards and titles, although in the Sikh nobility there was no specific classifications of hierarchy as seen in the ...to have been '''Rajai Rajgan''' held only by one person in the history of Sikh rule, Dhian Singh Dogra who was also titled '''Raja Kalan'''. He had, even,

...ly by several aristocratic families such as the Sodhis ofKartarpur and the Sardars ofDhammomajra.