ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GHUL&#256M MURTAZ&#256 MIRZ&#256</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 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">&#65279<u>GH</u>UL&#256M MURTAZ&#256, MIRZ&#256, served the Lahore Darb&#257r under Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and his successors for several years. One of his ancestors, H&#257d&#299 Beg, a Mu<u>gh</u>al migrant from Samarkand, had emigrated to the Punjab in 1530 during the reign of B&#257bar and got appointment as <i>q&#257z&#299</i> or magistrate over seventy villages in the neighbourhood of Q&#257d&#299&#257&#7749. H&#257d&#299 Beg's descendants were engaged in constant struggle with the R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 and Kanhaiy&#257 <i>sard&#257rs</i> who had occupied territory in the neighbourhood of Q&#257di&#257&#7749. Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh who had confiscated the possessions of the R&#257mga&#7771h&#299a chiefship restored to <u>Gh</u>ul&#257m Murtaz&#257 a large portion of his ancestral estates. <u>Gh</u>ul&#257m Murtaz&#257 entered the army of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 and served on the Kashm&#299r frontier and at other places. During the time of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh and his successors, <u>Gh</u>ul&#257m Murtaz&#257 did his stints of active service. He accompanied General Ventura in 1841 to Ma&#7751&#7693&#299 and Kull&#363, and in 1843 he was sent to Pesh&#257war. Mirz&#257 <u>Gh</u>ul&#257m Murtaz&#257 settled at Q&#257d&#299&#257&#7749, but his estate was resumed upon the occupation of the Punjab by the British.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, Sohan L&#257I, <i>'Umd&#257t-ut-Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u></i>. Lahore, 1885-89<BR> <li class="C1"> Lepel, Griffin, and C.F. Massy, <i>Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab</i>. Lahore, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">G. S. Nayyar<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>