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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Buria (also Buruja) was founded by Nanun Singh, a Jat of Jhawal Mandan in the Manjha, together with Bhag Singh and Rai Singh brothers, all Bhangi Sikhs, who, in 1764, seized the fort of Buria, which the year before had been abandoned by Lachmi Narain, an officer of Zin Khan, the Muhammadan Governor of Sirhind, however the Afghans of Aurangabad, enticed Nanu Singh to the Aurangabad Fort and put him to death. The state was reduced to the rank of an ordinary jagir in June 1849, when immediately after the Second Sikh War, their criminal, civil and fiscal jurisdiction came under the law as administered in the Punjab generally. The state ranks third among the minor chiefships (1870). Estate holders were...

• Sardar NANU SINGH, 1st Chief of Buria in 1764, married and had adoptive issue. He was killed at Aurangabad Fort by treachery in 1764.

  • (A) Sardar Bhag Singh (qv)

• Sardar BHAG SINGH, 2nd Chief of Buria 1764/1785, with Rai Singh Bhangi, he avenged his adoptive father's death, by defeating the Aurangabadis and levelling their Fort, thus capturing about 200 villages, which was divided between them, Rai Singh taking 84 villages, forming his estates of Jugadri and Dyalghar, while Bhag Singh took the rest, which formed his estate of Buria; married and had issue. He died 1785/1786.

  • Sardar Sher Singh (qv)

• Sardar SHER SINGH, 3rd Chief of Buria 1786/1804, after his death a long dispute arose between the widows and the sons of the late Sardar, viz. Jaimal Singh and Gulab Singh, which ended in the estate being divided between the sons; and on the death of Jaimal Singh in 1817, Gulab Singh succeeded to the whole; married and had issue. He was killed in an engagement with the British at Saharanpur in 1804/1805.

  • Sardar Jaimal Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Gulab Singh (qv)

• Sardar JAIMAL SINGH, 4th Chief of Buria 1805/1817, married Rani Nand Kaur, she died 1835. He died spm in 1817 (1816?).

• Sardar GULAB SINGH, 5th Chief of Buria 1817/1844, married and had issue. He died 1844.

  • Sardar Jiwan Singh [Jiun Singh] (qv)

  • Maharani Karm Kaur, married Maharaja Narendra Singh of Patiala.

• Sardar JIWAN SINGH C.I.E, 6th Chief of Buria 1844/-; born 1842, he was an Honorary Magistrate, Honorary Civil Judge and Sub-Registrar within the limits of his estates; he was one of the most enlightened of the Sikh Chiefs of the Ambala district and was honoured in 1887 by being the recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire, conferred in recognition of his loyal public services; his jagirs and muafis yielded an income of Rs5,500; and his rents from proprietary holdings amounted to Rs41,500 per annum; Darbari of Ambala District, 2nd in order of Precedence within the Division and 35th in the Province; married and had issue. He died 1893.

  • Kanwar Gajinder Singh, born 1869, married and had issue. He died 1890.

    • Sardar Bahadur Sardar Lachhman Singh (qv)

  • Kanwar Madan Singh, born 1888.

• Sardar Bahadur Sardar LACHHMAN SINGH, 7th Chief of Buria 1890/1921, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore, he succeeded his grandfather as a minor under the management of the Court of Wards until 1912 when he attained his majority and was granted management rights; he was appointed an Honorary Magistrate and an Honorary Civil Judge at Buria; he was granted the title of Sardar Bahadur and 13 squares of land in Montgomery district in 1916; married and had issue, two sons (by the second wife). He died 1921.

  • Kanwar Ratan Amol Singh, born 1919, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore.

  • Kanwar Lal Amol Singh, born 1920, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore.