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<p class="C1">&#65279JODH SI&#7748GH R&#256MGA&#7770H&#298&#256 (d. 1815), soldier and feudatory chief in Sikh times, was the eldest son of Jass&#257 Si&#7749gh, the celebrated R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 Sard&#257r. Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh bound himself in a pledge of friendship with Jodh Si&#7749gh R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 before the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib at Darb&#257r S&#257hib, Amritsar. The Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 had great reverence for him and used to call him B&#257b&#257j&#299. He was always seated next to the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 in the royal <i>darb&#257r</i>. Jodh Si&#7749gh was Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's ally in his earlier campaigns. In 1802, he helped him to seize Amritsar from M&#257&#299 Sukkh&#257&#7749, widow of Gul&#257b Si&#7749gh Bha&#7749g&#299. In 1807, he accompanied the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 to Kas&#363r with all his force against Qutb ud-D&#299n, who surrendered after a month's resistance. The Faizull&#257pur&#299&#257 possessions were annexed to Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh's domain by D&#299w&#257n Mohkam Chand and Jodh Si&#7749gh R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 in 1810-11.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Jodh Si&#7749gh was a deeply religious person. He built the R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 Bu&#7749g&#257 on the Golden Temple premises, and supplied pieces of perforated marble that served as parapets on both sides of the causeway leading to the sanctuary. He also brought many pieces of mosaic work from Delhi and &#256gr&#257. He built the first two storeys of B&#257b&#257 A&#7789al, the eloftiest building in Amritsar, near the Golden Temple.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jodh Si&#7749gh died at Amritsar in August 1815.</p>
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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"> Prem Si&#7749gh, B&#257b&#257, <i><u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 R&#257j de Usraiyye</i>. Hoti Mardan, 1944<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"> Seetal, Sohan Singh, <i>The Sikh Misals and the Punjab</i>. Ludhiana, n.d.<BR>
<li class="C1"> Ramgarhia, Sundar Si&#7749gh, <i>The Annals of the Ramgarhia Sardars</i>. Amritsar, 1902<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR>
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