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<p class="C1">&#65279GURMUKH SI&#7748GH, a <i>kah&#257r</i> or water-carrier of Kandol&#257 village in Jalandhar district of the Punjab, was a close confidant of Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh, leader of the anti-British revolt of 1848-49. During the second Anglo-Sikh war, Gurmukh Si&#7749gh assisted Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh in procuring supplies of food and fodder for the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 army. He also used to cook for him and this earned him the epithet <i>l&#257&#7749gar&#299</i> (lit. a cook). When Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh re-entered the Do&#257b&#257 region, Gurmukh Si&#7749gh helped him contact many influential local men needed for a projected raid on government treasury at Bajv&#257&#7771&#257, near Hoshi&#257rpur. Gurmukh Si&#7749gh was not present when Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh, along with 20 of his followers, was captured on the night of 28-29 December 1849, but was recognized and arrested from among the crowd that gathered near the civil jail at Jalandhar where the prisoners were later brought to be confined.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Ahluwalia, M.L., <i>Bhai Maharaj Singh</i>. Patiala, 1972<BR>
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