ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>N&#362R UD-D&#298N FAQ&#298R (d. 1852)</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="NjR,D*N,FAQ*R"> <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">&#65279N&#362R UD-D&#298N, FAQ&#298R (d. 1852), third son of <u>Gh</u>ul&#257m Mohy ud-D&#299n and the youngest brother of Faq&#299r 'Az&#299z ud-D&#299n, was one of the prominent Muslim courtiers serving the Sikh sovereign Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and his successors. In 1801, when Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh assumed the title of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257, N&#363r ud-D&#299n was appointed <i>hak&#299m</i> or physician to the court and put in charge of dispensaries in the city of Lahore. He also performed protocol duties on behalf of the State. Foreign travellers such as Moorcraft, Jacquemont, Burnes, Wolff, Hugel and Fane, whom he received on behalf of the Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 or whom he otherwise met on State occasions, have paid tributes to his outstanding abilities. Hugel, for instance, described him as "an upright yet versatile courtier, who has acquired the respect of the natives and the strangers." N&#363r ud-D&#299n was indeed a versatile man who was entrusted by Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh with diverse responsibilities such as the administration of the capital, superintendence of artillery stores, and commissariat arrangements for visiting dignitaries. He was at times also assigned to important administrative responsibilities outside the capital. In June 1810, he took Waz&#299r&#257b&#257d and was soon after appointed governor of Gujr&#257t. In the beginning of 1817, he was sent to settle the R&#257mga&#7771h&#299&#257 territories seized by Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh towards the end of 1816. In 1827, he went to Kap&#363rthal&#257 on a mission to restore normal relations after a temporary estrangement between Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh and the local chief, Fateh Si&#7749gh &#256hl&#363v&#257l&#299&#257.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Even after the death of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh, Faq&#299r N&#363r ud-D&#299n retained his position of eminence at the court. At the conclusion of the first Anglo-Sikh war, he was one of the signatories, on behalf of the State, to the Treaty of Lahore, 9 March 1846, and to the Articles of Agreement, 11 March 1846. He was appointed a member of the Council of Regency formed, under the treaty of 16 December 1846, to conduct the administration of the country during the minority of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh. The Council ceased to exist with the annexation of the Punjab to the British dominions on 29 March 1849. N&#363r ud-D&#299n's <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> of the annual value of Rs 20,885 were confirmed to him by the British. N&#363r ud-D&#299n died at Lahore on 26 March 1852. He was survived by four sons: from his first wife, Zah&#363r ud-D&#299n (1824-1893), who was for a time tutor to Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Duleep Si&#7749gh, and Haf&#299z ud-D&#299n (1835-1899), and from the second, Shamas ud-D&#299n (1825-1872) and Qamar ud-D&#299n (1826-1910), who travelled with his father as escort to Mah&#257r&#257&#7751&#299 J&#299nd Kaur when she was exiled to Ban&#257ras. Like his brother 'Aziz ud-D&#299n, N&#363r ud-D&#299n was a man of learning. He was also a poet and left a collection of verse entitled <i>D&#299w&#257n-i-Munawwar</i>.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> 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"> Waheed-ud-Din, Faqir, <i>The Real Ranjit Singh</i>. Karachi, 1965<BR> <li class="C1"> Bhagat Si&#7749gh, <i>Maharaja Ranjit Singh and His Times</i>. Delhi 1990<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Maharaja Ranjit Singh</i>. Delhi, 1980<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">F. S. Aij&#257z&#363dd&#299n<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>