ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>K&#256HN CHAND</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="KHN,CHAND"> <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">&#65279K&#256HN CHAND, son of Am&#299r Chand, served under Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and his successors in various capacities. His family originally belonged to Mult&#257n. His father had served as a revenue officer under Misr D&#299v&#257n Chand at the Lahore court and afterwards as a commander under Har&#299 Si&#7749gh Nalv&#257. K&#257hn Chand joined service as a scribe in 1823 and was promoted to the position of <i>mur&#257sal&#257-nav&#299s</i> or dispatch-writer in 1834. This was an office of trust. The correspondence being secret was conducted under the direct <i>farm&#257n</i> or order of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 by his trusted courtier Faq&#299r 'Az&#299z ud-D&#299n. It was K&#257hn Chand who first raised the &#7692er&#257 <u>Kh</u>&#257s or bodyguards, a regiment of young Sikh <i>sard&#257rs</i>, who were the pick of the Sikh army. On the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, K&#257hn Chand's <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> were resumed and he was granted a pension of Rs 1,200 by the British.</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> </ol><p class="CONT">G. S. Nayyar<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>