ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GURBACHAN SI&#7748GH SANDH&#256&#7748V&#256L&#298&#256 (b. 1855)</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="GURBACHAN,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">&#65279GURBACHAN SI&#7748GH SANDH&#256&#7748V&#256L&#298&#256 (b. 1855), the eldest of the four sons of &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257, the prime minister of the <i>emigre</i> government of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh at Pondicherry, was born in 1855 and was adopted by his uncle Part&#257p Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257. Gurbachan Si&#7749gh was nominated to the Statutory Civil Service and was in 1886 working as an assistant commissioner in the Punjab. In October of that year, he accompanied his father, &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh, with a small retinue of servants on a pilgrimage to N&#257nde&#7693, sacred to Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. From there the party proceeded to Pondicherry, a French possession near Madr&#257s, where &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh started a campaign for the restoration of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh to the throne of the Punjab. Gurbachan Si&#7749gh, who had taken one month's leave extraordinary, did not report back for duty in the Punjab and was dismissed from service. In Pondicherry, he took charge of the correspondence, mainly in English, with Duleep Si&#7749gh and his supporters in different parts. He also established contact with the French authorities in Pondicherry and his letters to the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 were carried in the French diplomatic bag. After &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh's death in August 1887, Gurbachan Si&#7749gh's <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> were confiscated by the British and he was allowed to come to India only in October 1890. In 1899 he entered the service of R&#257j&#257 of N&#257han, becoming a district judge in 1911. He died there issueless.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh, <i>Si&#7749gh Sabh&#257 Lahir</i>. Ludhiana, 1974<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganda Singh, ed., <i>History of the Freedom Movement in the Panjab (Maharaja Duleep Singh Correspondence)</i>, Patiala, 1972<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">K. S. Th&#257par<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>