ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>&#298SHAR KAUR R&#256&#7750&#298 (d. 1840)</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="*SHAR,KAUR,RF*"> <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&#298SHAR KAUR, R&#256&#7750&#298 (d. 1840), daughter of L&#257l Si&#7749gh Sandh&#363 of the village of Sir&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299, in Si&#257lko&#7789 district of the Punjab, was married to Prince Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh, eldest son of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh, in 1815, by the rite of <i>ch&#257dar and&#257zi</i>, i.e. throwing across the conjugal sheet. She immolated herself on the funeral pyre of her husband on 5 November 1840.</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"> Ganda Singh, ed., <i>Maharaja Ranjit Singh</i> (First Death Centenary Volume) . Amritsar, 1939<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>