ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GURDIT SI&#7748GH MAJ&#298&#7788H&#298&#256 (d. 1853)</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="GURDIT,SIDGH,MAJ*lH*"> <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">&#65279GURDIT SI&#7748GH MAJ&#298&#7788H&#298&#256 (d. 1853), army general in Sikh times, was son of Amar Si&#7749gh Maj&#299&#7789h&#299&#257. He entered Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's service in 1834, and rose to command 3 infantry battalions and a wing of light artillery. General Gurdit Si&#7749gh was in command of the Lahore troops at Pesh&#257war in September 1845 when Prince Pashaur&#257 Si&#7749gh had risen in revolt. He rejected the Prince's call to throw off his allegiance to the Darb&#257r and join him. Gurdit Si&#7749gh was married to the niece of D&#299w&#257n S&#257va&#7751 Mall, the governor of Mult&#257n.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He died in 1853.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> 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"> Smyth, G. Carmichael, <i>A History of the Reigning Family of Lahore</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>