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<p class="C1">&#65279BHAGAT R&#256M, BA<u>KH</u>SH&#298 (1799-1865), son of Bais&#257<u>kh</u>&#299 R&#257m, a small money-changer in the city of Lahore, joined the service of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh in 1818 at the age of nineteen as a writer in the treasury office under Misr Bel&#299 R&#257m, the chief <i>tosh&#257<u>kh</u>&#257n&#299&#257</i> or keeper of the State treasury. In 1824, he was appointed assistant writer of the accounts of the privy purse. In 1831, he was deputed to accompany Ka&#7749var Sher Si&#7749gh to the hills of Jalandhar Do&#257b to collect revenue from the defaulting states of Ma&#7751&#7693&#299, Suket and Kull&#363. He came back to Lahore in 1832 and was appointed paymaster of fifty battalions of infantry, eight regiments of cavalry and twenty batteries of artillery. For his services to the State, he was granted in 1841 a <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> at Ajn&#257l&#257 by Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Sher Si&#7749gh. After the assassination of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Sher Si&#7749gh, he became leader of a section of the Mutsadd&#299 party, the other section being under the influence of D&#299w&#257n D&#299n&#257 N&#257th. After the murder of R&#257j&#257 H&#299r&#257 Si&#7749gh on 21 December 1844, Ba<u>kh</u>sh&#299 Bhagat R&#257m's name was considered for appointment as one of the members of the council which was to carry on the government of the country, but the proposal fell through. He was sent to Jamm&#363 with the expedition against R&#257j&#257 Gul&#257b Si&#7749gh in March 1845. Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh granted him an additional <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> at D&#257t&#257rpur, in the Jalandhar Do&#257b. Bhagat R&#257m lost this <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> when the Do&#257b was ceded to the British by the treaty of Lahore, 9 March 1846, but received one in lieu of it in Amritsar district.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bhagat R&#257m died at Lahore in 1865, leaving behind one son, Jam&#299at R&#257i.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, Sohan L&#257l, '<i>Umd&#257t-ut-Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u></i>. Lahore, 1885-89<BR>
<li class="C1"> Griffin, Lepel and C. F. Massy, <i>Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab</i>. Lahore, 1909<BR>
<li class="C1"> Bhagat Singh, <i>Maharaja Ranjit Singh and His Times</i>. Delhi, 1990<BR>
<li class="C1"> Khushwant Singh, <i>Ranjit Singh: Maharaja of the Punjab 1780-1839</i>. Bombay, 1962<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">J. S. Khur&#257n&#257<br></p><BR>
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