Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab: A Revised Edition of “The Punjab Chiefs” and of “Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab”

Singh's great-grandfather Jit Singh was ruler of the Jammu country north of Sialkot a portion of the dominions of the present"2 CHIEFS AND FAMILIES OF NOTE. [...] An ancestor of the name of kahilon was the founder of the Jut familyof that manciand Mingo the eleventh front I< ahilon emigrated to the l'imjah and built the village of Illtagowala near liatala in the Gurdaspur district from which the present family takes its name. [...] Up to the death of Maharaja Singh Ithagowala chiefs had been merely feudal retainers of the N1ajithia S3ollars lint on the accession of Maharaja Slier Singh thilah Singh entered the regality army and was made a colonel of /1rtillei'v with command of doyen guns with n. riish snlnry and faqirs of its. [...] On the termination of the war the whole estates of Arjun Singh were confiscated ; and the Hangar Nangal jay ir was conferred on Sardnr Mangal tiingh Hamgarhia who had displayed much energy in the capture of Hari Singh a. notorious frebooter who had during the war kept the neighbourhood of Batala in a state of alarm. [...] After the elose of the campaign and' the cession to the British Government of the Jullundur Doab the family lust its lily irif on the left bank of the Bees ; but Hai Kishan Chand was directed to latex( on the Agent of the.