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<p class="C1">&#65279MA&#7748GAL SI&#7748GH (d.1864), manager of Prince Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh's estates in Sikh times, came of a Sandh&#363 family of the village of Sir&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299, in Si&#257lko&#7789 district, which traced its ancestry to one Husain who founded, at the beginning of sixteenth century, Hasanv&#257l&#257, a village in Gujr&#257&#7749w&#257l&#257  district. Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh's grandfather Darg&#257h, who was the first in the family to adopt the Sikh faith, migrated from Sir&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299 to Gurd&#257spur owing to straitened circumstances to which he had been reduced, and joined Jaimal Si&#7749gh Kanhaiy&#257 as a horseman. His son L&#257l Si&#7749gh, the father of Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh, succeeded him and was promoted to command 100 horse.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh's sister &#298shar Kaur was married to Prince Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh in 1815 at Amritsar. This brought the brother favours from the court. A <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> of the value of Rs 5,000 was conferred upon Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh and he was given charge  of the Ch&#363n&#299&#257&#7749 tract in Lahore district. Kha&#7771ak Si&#7749gh was so pleased with his management that he entrusted him in 1820 with the charge  of all his affairs, civil and military, and gave him an enhanced <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> of Rs 19,000 with the title of Sard&#257r. Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh also secured the possession of his old family village of Sir&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299, which was then held by Sh&#257m Si&#7749gh A&#7789&#257r&#299v&#257l&#257. He retained the favour of his master, though the management of princely estates was in 1834 transferred to Chet Si&#7749gh B&#257jv&#257. Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Sher Si&#7749gh resumed most of Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh's original estates but granted him new ones of the value of over a lakh of rupees which he retained until 1846, when R&#257j&#257 L&#257l Si&#7749gh seized them leaving him a much reduced <i>j&#257g&#299r</i>. Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh was appointed Ad&#257lat&#299 or judicial officer of the Rachn&#257 Do&#257b by the British Resident, Major Lawrence.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Ma&#7749gal Si&#7749gh died in June 1864.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, Sohan L&#257I, '<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">Sard&#257r Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#7789&#299&#257<br></p><BR>
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