Punjab States Gazetteers Faridkot State 1907

Faridkot was situated in the true desert and the only water for a besieging army was to be found in a few pools filled with rain water and scattered round the place and these the besieged filled with the poisonous branches of a shrub which so affected the water as to give the Lahore troops the most violent purging and the general had no othertresource than to raise the siege. [...] Metcalfe's diplomacy was much commended by the Government of the day there can be little doubt that he was outwitted by the Maharaja who would have been pet initted to retain all his conquests to the south of the Satlej had not the policy of the British Government suddenly undergone a change by the removal of all apprehensicti of a Frencu invasion.") Before abandoning the fort Fauju Singh made [...] were the actual assassins it WriR generally believed that the instigators of the crime were Fauju Singh the Manager and &alit) Singh the youngest brother of the Chief. [...] He placed himself and his troops under the orders of the Depuiy Commissioner of Frrozpur arid guarded the ferries of the Sdtlej against the passage of the mutineers. [...] He was also exempted from the service of ten sowars which he had been previously obliged to furnish.(2) On the 11th March 1862 the right of adoption was granted him with a sanad.(3) Raja Wazir Singh himself married four wives Ind Kau% the daughter of Sham Singh Min of Munsab and mother_of Bikram Singh the daughters of Bauawa Singh of Raipur and Sirdar Gajja Singh of Lahore and the widow of h