ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JAM&#298AT R&#256I</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="JAM*AT,RI"> <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">&#65279JAM&#298AT R&#256I alias J&#299t Mall, a <i>jh&#299var</i> or water bearer on the domestic establishment of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh during his stay at Fatehga&#7771h. He belonged to Sh&#257h<u>gh</u>ar&#299b, in Shakarga&#7771h <i>tahs&#299l</i> of Gurd&#257spur district (now in Pakistan). In 1885, he received a letter from the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 then living in England, regretting that pension had not been paid to him for long and enclosing in compensation a cheque for four thousand rupees. The letter also carried the news that the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 was returning to India to live quietly in Delhi and stated that he was firm in his Sikh faith. In December 1885, Jam&#299at R&#257i received a letter from &#7788h&#257kur Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257 to come to Delhi to receive Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh. In April 1886, he also received a telegram from the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 informing him of his intended arrival in India. Jam&#299at R&#257i collected a party of men of his caste and went to Bombay with the intention of entering once again the service of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 who, it was reported, would live at Ootacamund.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol 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>