ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SULT&#256N MAHM&#362D KH&#256N (d. 1859)</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="SULTN,MAHMjD"> <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">&#65279SULT&#256N MAHM&#362D <u>KH</u>&#256N (d. 1859), son of General <u>Gh</u>aus <u>Kh</u>&#257n, was a commander of a section of heavy artillery during the regime of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh. His <i>&#7693erah</i> of artillery was designated as Top<u>kh</u>&#257n&#257-i-Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d. After the death of General <u>Gh</u>aus <u>Kh</u>&#257n in 1814, although the chief command of the artillery was entrusted to Misr D&#299v&#257n Chand, the battery under the former's command was placed in the charge of Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d. Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d accompanied Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh on his expeditions against Mult&#257n and Kashm&#299r. After the reorganization of the Sikh army into Brigades in 1835, when a horse battery was attached to each brigade, the heavy siege train continued to be commanded by General Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d as a separate corps. The Top<u>kh</u>&#257n&#257 -i-Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d was present on the historic occasion of the Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh--- William Bentinck meeting at Ropa&#7771 in October 1831.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d was of exceedingly intemperate habits, and his drunkenness brought him more than once into trouble with his master, but he was a useful officer and was generally treated with favour. When Nau Nih&#257l Si&#7749gh secured power, Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d lost his command and was sent in charge of a troop of artillery, under General Ventura, to Ma&#7751&#7693i in the hills, but on the accession of Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Sher Si&#7749gh he was reinstated and his son Sult&#257n Ahmad 'Al&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n, was made a Colonel. In 1843, both father and son were engaged in the assault on the Fort of Lahore which had been taken possession of by the Sandh&#257&#7749v&#257l&#299&#257s after the murder of Sher Si&#7749gh; and, for their services on this occasion, they received additional <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> from the &#7692ogr&#257 R&#257j&#257 H&#299r&#257 Si&#7749gh. Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d was then sent in command of the artillery to Haz&#257r&#257 where he remained until 1848 when both he and his son were moved to the &#7692er&#257j&#257t. At the outbreak of the second Anglo-Sikh war, Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d as well as his son, Sult&#257n Ahmad 'Al&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n, joined the rebel Sikh forces at R&#257mnagar and fought against the English throughout the war. After the annexation of the Punjab, service <i>j&#257g&#299rs</i> of Sult&#257n Mahm&#363d were resumed but he received a life pension of Rs 600 which he held until his death in 1859, at Bharov&#257l, his ancestral village in Amritsar district.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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"> Cunningham, Joseph Davey, <i>A History of the Sikhs</i>. London, 1849<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Hameed ud-D&#299n<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>