Punjab State Gazetteers. Kapurthala State with Map 1904

on the north' by the British District of Hoshiarpur on the east by that of Jullundur on the south by the Sutlej and on the west by the Beas. [...] Sardar Jasa Singh was undoubtedly the foremost Sikh leader north of the Sutlej in the middle of the 118th c4i-t4.- ury and the equal of any Chief south of that river. [...] amongst His mutiny the many good men who were on the British side in 1857 On services the first news of the outbreak of the Mutiny the Rtija marched into Jullundur at the head of his men and helped to hold the Doab almost denuded of troops until the fall of Delhi. [...] The political effect of this active loyalty on the part of the leading Sikh Chief north of the Sutlej was of the utmost value ; and the kijii's able assistance was promptly acknowledged by the bestowal upon him of the honourable title of Raja-i-Rajgan in perpetuit v and by a rduction in the amount of his tribute payment. [...] It is said to have been founded in the early part of the eleventh century in the time of Sultan Mahmild of Ghazni by Rana Kapur the mythical a❑cebtor of the Ahluwalia family and a cadet of the royal Rtijptit house of Jessalmir.