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<p class="C1">&#65279NARAI&#7750 SI&#7748GH, a well-to-do Aro&#7771&#257 Sikh businessman of the village of Bahir&#257mpur&#257, near D&#299n&#257nagar, in Gurd&#257spur district, helped Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh (d. 1856) financially on several occasions. He had facility in reciting hymns from the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib and was widely travelled. He was summoned by Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh to R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299 before the battles of Chel&#299&#257&#7749v&#257l&#257  and Gujr&#257t, and was assigned to procuring grain for the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 army. After the battles, Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh had moved to Jamm&#363 region and thence to S&#363jov&#257l, near Ba&#7789&#257l&#257. At the latter place a plan was made to abduct the young Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh before the British removed him from the Punjab. Narai&#7751 Si&#7749gh provided finance for the party entrusted with the execution of the plan (which, however, leaked prematurely and failed). He also financed the trip of Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh's emissaries to Bh&#257&#299 Kishan Si&#7749gh and Bh&#257&#299 Nih&#257l Si&#7749gh in the North-West Frontier Province. Later at Kandol&#257, in Jalandhar district, he helped Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh with funds to carry on with his campaign.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh, <i>Bh&#257&#299 Mah&#257r&#257j Si&#7749gh: Pañj&#257b de Mo&#7693h&#299 Svtantart&#257 Sa&#7749gr&#257m&#299e</i>. Amritsar, 1966<BR>
<li class="C1"> Ahluwalia, M.L., <i>Bhai Maharaj Singh</i>. Patiala, 1972<BR>
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