ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>PAH&#256&#7770 SI&#7748GH R&#256J&#256 (d. 1849)</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="PAHZ,SIDGH,RJ"> <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">&#65279PAH&#256&#7770 SI&#7748GH, R&#256J&#256 (d. 1849), son of Cha&#7771hat Si&#7749gh, succeeded his nephew, Atar Si&#7749gh, in 1827 to the throne of Far&#299dko&#7789. His reign lasting twenty-two years was marked by peace and prosperity. He founded many villages and dug wells and extended cultivation. He helped the British in the first Anglo-Sikh war of 1845-46, and his timely information to the British commander about the position of the Sikh army in the battle of Pher&#363shahr saved the British army from the disaster that stared it in the face. His services were rewarded by the British with the title of R&#257j&#257 in April 1846 and grant of territory seized from N&#257bh&#257 besides the restoration of the ancestral estate of Ko&#7789 Kap&#363r&#257. He died in April 1849 in his fiftieth year, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Waz&#299r Si&#7749gh, then twenty-one years of age.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Griffin, Lepel, <i>The Rajas of the Punjab</i> [Reprint]. Delhi, 1977.<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganda Singh, <i>The Patiala and the East Punjab States Union</i>. Patiala, 1971.<BR> <li class="C1"> Harba&#7749s Si&#7749gh, <i>Faridko&#7789 Itih&#257s B&#257re.</i> Faridkot, 1947.<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>