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<p class="C1">&#65279KISHAN CHAND, R&#256I (d.1873), news-writer and <i>vak&#299l</i> or agent of the Sikh court at Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257, the British post on the Anglo-Sikh frontier, was son of Ba<u>kh</u>sh&#299 Anand Si&#7749gh. Well versed in diplomacy, he accompanied Colonel Claude Wade on a political mission to Pesh&#257war in 1839. In 1840, Ka&#7749var Nau Nih&#257l Si&#7749gh conferred on him the title of R&#257i. After the death of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Sher Si&#7749gh, he began exercising civil and criminal powers over territories under the protection of the Lahore Darb&#257r, and amassed great wealth. When R&#257j&#257 H&#299r&#257 Si&#7749gh became the prime minister, he grew jealous of R&#257i Kishan Chand's increasing influence and his pro-Gul&#257b Si&#7749gh leanings. As hostilities broke out between the British and the Sikhs in 1845, Kishan Chand left Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257 and crossed the Sutlej into the Punjab. He lost his <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> when the Jalandhar Do&#257b was annexed by the British. He was one of the signatories to the treaty of Bharov&#257l on behalf of the minor Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh and for some time attended on the British Resident at Lahore before being permitted to retire to Ba&#7789&#257l&#257.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kishan Chand died in 1873.</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"> 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. Chh&#257b&#7771&#257<br></p><BR>
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