ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MILKH&#256 SI&#7748GH THEHPUR&#298&#256 (d. 1804)</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="MILKH,SIDGH,THEHPUR*"> <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">&#65279MILKH&#256 SI&#7748GH THEHPUR&#298&#256 (d. 1804), a powerful Sikh chief during the latter half of the eighteenth century, who, abandoning his native place, K&#257leke, near Kas&#363r, founded the village of Thehpur in Lahore district and took possession of a number of villages in its vicinity and in Gujr&#257t and Gujr&#257&#7749w&#257l&#257 districts. Not content with these possessions, he marched northward and seized R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299, then an insignificant place inhabited by R&#257wal mendicants. Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh fixed his headquarters there, building new houses and fortifying the town. R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299, being on the highway into India, was a vulnerable possession exposed to attacks of Af<u>gh</u>&#257n invaders, but Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh held his own. He conquered a tract around R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299 worth several lakhs of Rupees a year and had won the esteem of the warlike tribes of Haz&#257r&#257. He had adopted the cognomen of Thehpur&#299&#257 from the village he had founded, but in the north he was known as Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh Pi&#7751&#7693&#299v&#257l&#257. Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh, whom Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh had joined in his early expeditions, called him B&#257b&#257j&#299, i.e. the revered grandfather.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh died in 1804. J&#299v&#257n Si&#7749gh, his only son, who succeeded to his father's estates, fought in the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257's Kashm&#299r campaign in 1814, and died the next year. The force which Milkh&#257 Si&#7749gh and J&#299van Si&#7749gh had maintained was transferred to the service of the Sikh State and placed under Sard&#257r Atar Si&#7749gh Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257, bearing the name of &#7693er&#257 Pi&#7751&#7693&#299v&#257l&#257.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Griffin, Sir Lepel, <i>The Punjab Chiefs</i>. Lahore, 1890<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>