ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BUDDH SI&#7748GH SANDH&#256&#7748V&#256L&#298&#256 (d. 1827)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BUDDH,SIDGH,SANDHDVL*"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BUDDH SI&#7748GH SANDH&#256&#7748V&#256L&#298&#256 (d. 1827), soldier and <i>j&#257g&#299rd&#257r</i> in the time of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh, was son of Am&#299r Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257, his two brothers being the more famous Lahi&#7751&#257 Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257 and Atar Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257. Buddh Si&#7749gh entered the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257's service in 1811. The first independent command he held was at Bah&#257walpur where he had been sent to collect tax arrears. In 1821, he captured the forts of Maujga&#7771h and J&#257mga&#7771h and received <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> in reward from the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257. Later, he was sent to the Jamm&#363 hills in command of two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. He also commanded a Sikh force in the battle of &#7788&#299r&#299 in 1823. Not long afterwards, he fell from favour and, to keep him away from Lahore, the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 gave him the Pesh&#257war command and sent him into the Y&#363safza&#299 country against <u>Kh</u>al&#299f&#257 Sayyid Ahmad, then preaching <i>jih&#257d</i> against the Sikhs. Buddh Si&#7749gh fought against the <u>Kh</u>al&#299f&#257 and inflicted on him such a crushing defeat that it took him two years to recover his forces sufficiently to go to battle again. After this victory Buddh Si&#7749gh returned to Lahore, where he was received with much honour. A few months later, at the close of 1827, he died of cholera. The Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 wrote a letter to his family expressing his grief at his death and regretting that so brave a man should have died in bed like a common mortal.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, Sohan L&#257l, 'Umd&#257t-ut-Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u>. Lahore, 1885-89<BR> <li class="C1"> Griffin, Lepel, <i>Ranjit Singh</i>. Delhi, 1957<BR> <li class="C1"> Prinsep, Henry T. , <i>Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab and Political Life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh</i>. Calcutta, 1834<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>