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<p class="C1">&#65279DEV&#256 SI&#7748GH, SARD&#256R BAH&#256DUR (d. 1872), son of Fateh Si&#7749gh and a great-grandson of S&#257van Si&#7749gh cousin of Sa&#7749gat Si&#7749gh, the leader of the Nish&#257n&#257v&#257l&#299 <i>misl</i>, came of a Shergil Ja&#7789&#7789 family of Mans&#363rv&#257l, in F&#299rozpur district. Dev&#257 Si&#7749gh joined service under Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh in 1816 at a very young age. After some time, he was put under Lahi&#7751&#257 Si&#7749gh Maj&#299&#7789h&#299&#257 who made him commandant of the regiment of his brother, Gujjar Si&#7749gh. In 1834, he accompanied the young Sard&#257r to Calcutta on a mission half complimentary, half political. In 1842, he was transferred to the Gurkh&#257 regiment to serve in Haz&#257r&#257. Under the Darb&#257r he was posted at &#7692er&#257 Ism&#257'&#299l <u>Kh</u>&#257n in command of the S&#363rajmukh&#299 regiment. At the time of the outbreak at Mult&#257n, he left with his regiment to join Herbert Edwardes and General Van Cortlandt with whom he served throughout the campaign and earned much distinction and fame.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	In 1853, when the Punjab Military Police was formed, Dev&#257 Si&#7749gh was selected to raise and command the Seventh Police Battalion at Amritsar. He preserved order in the city and upheld the civil authority on the eve of the revolt of 1857. He also raised levies for service at Delhi and, during 1857-58, a considerable number of men were recruited and sent down country by him. For his services, Dev&#257 Si&#7749gh was granted the Star of the Order of British India with the title of Sard&#257r Bah&#257dur and a personal allowance of Rs 1, 200 per annum. On the reorganization of the Punjab police and disarming of the old force, Dev&#257 Si&#7749gh retired from government service. He received a special retiring pension of Rs 3, 000 per annum, and a grant of six hundred acres of waste land with proprietory rights. Dev&#257 Si&#7749gh died in 1872.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Sur&#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>
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