ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KHUSH&#256L SI&#7748GH (d. 1795)</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 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<u>KH</u>USH&#256L SI&#7748GH (d. 1795), son of D&#257n Si&#7749gh, who was the younger brother of Naw&#257b Kap&#363r Si&#7749gh, leader of the Dal <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257, succeeded the Naw&#257b to the leadership of the Si&#7749ghpur&#299&#257 <i>misl</i>. He added a number of places and <i>parganahs</i> such as Bahr&#257mpur and N&#363rpur to his estate. After the death of &#256d&#299n&#257 Beg, the <i>faujd&#257r</i> of Jalandhar Do&#257b, <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh, along with Jass&#257 Si&#7749gh &#256hl&#363v&#257l&#299&#257, attacked his <i>d&#299w&#257n</i> Bishambhar Mall in 1759, captured Jalandhar and several adjoining areas. The &#256hl&#363v&#257l&#299&#257 Sard&#257r allowed <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh to make Jalandhar his capital. <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh captured the <i>parganahs</i> of Haibatpur and Pa&#7789&#7789&#299 from the Path&#257n chief of Kas&#363r and placed these under the charge of his son, Buddh Si&#7749gh. At the time of the conquest of Sirhind by Sikhs in January 1764, he acquired Bharatga&#7771h, Machhal&#299, Ghanaul&#299, Manaul&#299 and several other villages as his share of the booty. He, along with other Sikh <i>sard&#257rs</i>, kept making guerilla attacks upon the invading Af<u>gh</u>&#257n hordes of Ahmad Sh&#257h Durr&#257n&#299 whenever he could. <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh and R&#257j&#257 Amar Si&#7749gh of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 seized from the Naw&#257b of R&#257iko&#7789 23 villages around Chhat and Ban&#363&#7771 which remained under their joint control for several years. <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh built a Bazar at Amritsar called Ka&#7789r&#257 Si&#7749ghpur&#299&#257&#7749, now known as Bazar Kaseri&#257&#7749. <u>Kh</u>ush&#257l Si&#7749gh died in 1795. His territory annually yielded two lakhs in the B&#257r&#299 Do&#257b, one lakh in the Jalandhar Do&#257b and one and a half lakh in the Sirhind province.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><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"> Khushwant Singh, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>, vol.I. Princeton, 1966<BR> <li class="C1"> Gupta, Hari Ram, <i>History of the Sikhs</i>, vol. IV. Delhi, 1982<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>