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AREA: km2
LOCATION: Punjab
MILITARY STRENGTH: 5,000
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Khatri
CAPITAL: Rahon
ANNEXATION: : 1807
RELIGION: Sikh
PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE:
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Dallewalia Misl, was founded by Gulab, a Khatri, and resident of the village Dallewal, near Dera Baba Nanak in Doaba, Dist. Jallandhar. It had a military strength of 5,000 regular horsemen. The territory they held was Nakodar, Talwan, Badala, Rahon, Mahatpur, Nawanshaher and Phillaur. The Dallewalia and Nishanwalia Jathas were stationed at Amritsar to protect the holy city. Members were...
Shardha Ram, married and had issue.
Sardar Gulab Singh (qv)
Dayal Singh
Sardar Gurdyal Singh (qv)
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Sardar Gulab Singh Dallewalia, 1st Misldhar of Dallewali 1748/1759, he took 'pahul' and became an active member of the Dal Khalsa in 1726, he took part in action against Lahore, Kasur and Jalandhar, and had fought bravely against Shahanshah Nadir Shah in 1739 and in the Chhota Ghallughara in 1746, married and had issue. He was killed in battle in 1759 at Kalanaur.
Jaipal Singh, he was killed vpsp in the battle of Basohli.
Hardyal Singh, he was killed vpsp in the battle of Basohli.
Sardar Gurdyal Singh Dallewalia, 2nd Misldhar of Dallewali 1759/1760
Sardar Tara Singh Ghaiba, 3rd Misldhar of Dallewali 1760/1807, born 1717, he joined Gulab Singh in his plundering raids, and with his dexterity in lifting cattle earning him the nickname of Ghaiba (the vanisher), in 1760, he crossed the Sutlej and captured the towns of Dharamkot and Fatehgarh, he further expanded his Misl up to the Ambala area in Haryana region, he sacked Kasur city and joined other Sikh Sardars in the sack of Sirhind city in January 1764, married 1stly, Bibiji Raj Kaur of village Mokha, married 2ndly, Sardarni Ratan Kaur, daughter of daughter of Gurdas Singh from Dooda Matta, married 2rdly, Bibiji Rajinder Kaur, and had issue. He died 1807 and his estates were annexed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with some left to his sons for maintenance.
Sardar Dasaundha Singh (by Raj Kaur), after his father's death, he was left with Dakhni, which, on his own death, was granted to Bedi Sahib Singh; married 1772, Bibiji Chand Kaur, daughter of Mian Himmat Singh of Patiala.
Sardar Gujjar Singh (by Rajinder Kaur), he was left with the estate of Ghumgarana, south of the Sutlej, after his father's death; married and had issue.
Jagat Singh, married and had issue.
Lehna Singh
Khazan Singh
Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur (by Ratan Kaur)
Sardar Jhanda Singh (by Ratan Kaur), he was left with Nakodar and Mahalpur, after his father's death, married and had issue.
Sardar Narmal Singh, joint Jagirdar of Baloki and Sharakpur, he was a Subedhar in the service of the British, married and had issue. He died 1872.
Sardar Amar Singh, Jagirdar of Baloki and Sharakpur, born 1845, married a daughter of Sardar Sujan Singh, Jagirdar of Karari, and had issue.
Sardar Thakar Singh, born 1866.
Sardar Bakhtawar Singh, joint Jagirdar of Baloki and Sharakpur, he died 1873.
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THE PRINCELY STATE OF ROPAR
SHORT HISTORY: The princely state of Ropar or Rupar was founded in 1763 by Sardar Hari Singh, a Virk Jat of village Kaleki near Kasur (now in Pakistan), and a noted member of the Dallewalia Misl. Members were....
Sardar HARI SINGH, 1st Raja of Ropar 1763/1792, at an early age he became the leader of a jatha of 400 fighting men, with the support of a Sikh jatha at Gurudwara Damdama Sahib, in 1763, while he and his men were on a pilgrimage, they had a fight with the Pathan Nawab of Ropar, whom they defeated and took control of his state, including many villages of modern day, Kharar and Rupnagar tahsils, as well as Sialba Khizrabad, Siswan and Kurali in Rupnagar District, he also captured the fort of Khizrabad, a year prior to his death he divided the state between his two sons, married (by chaddadalna), Sardarni Rajan Kaur, and had issue, two surviving sons. He died 1793.
Sardar Charat Singh (qv)
Sardar Deva Singh, he was granted Sialba by his father in 1792, married and had issue.
Sardar Narain Singh, married Bibi (name unknown) Kaur, daughter of Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Narendra Singh Mahendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Patiala, and had issue.
Sardar CHARAT SINGH, 2nd Raja of Ropar 1792/-, he succeed his father to Ropar (worth 80,000Rs), married and had issue.
Sardar Bhup Singh (qv)
Sardar BHUP SINGH, 3rd and last Raja of Ropar -/1846, he succeeded to his father's estate as a minor, in 1808-09 he, along with his uncle, Deva Singh, was in possession of Ropar and its adjacent districts including Khizrabad and Mianpur, a tract covering 115 villages with an estimated annual revenue of 53,000Rs, Ropar came under British protection on 8th November 1813 as a result of the treaty of Amritsar on 25th April 1809, which limited Maharaja Ranjit Singh's authority mainly to territories north of the River Sutlej, his territory was confiscated in 1846, by the British as a consequence of his opposition to them in the first Anglo-Sikh war, he was exiled to Saharanpur on 29th January 1847, he is remembered as a just ruler and as a pious Sikh who constructed the Gurdwara Dehra Baba Gurdittaji at Kiratpur and Gurdwara Gurugarh Sahib at Ropar, married and had issue.
Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Sardar Partab Singh Jalawalia of Alawalpur, born 1832, died 1894, and had issue.
JAGIRDARS OF DHARAMSINGHWALA
Sarhana, a Jat zamindar of the Kang sub-caste, married and had issue, two sons.
Amrika, married and had issue.
Sardar Tara Singh Ghaiba (see above)
Bhumia, married and had issue.
Dargaha Singh [aka Dargona Singh], died 1757.
Sardar Kapur Singh [aka Kaur Singh], he captured Kang in Nakodar and also took Fatehgarh Panjtah, an important place in Zira tahsil; married and had issue. He died 1788 or 1792.
Sardar Hari Singh [aka Hira Singh], married and had issue. He died spm in 1828.
Bibi Mahtab Kaur, married amd had issue.
Sardar Bhup Singh, married and had issue. He died 1858.
Sardar Narain Singh, married a daughter of Sardar Dava Singh from Patiala. He died sp in 1885.
Sardar Nahal Singh, born 1850, married a daughter of Sardar Kirpal Singh, Jagirdar of Sarhali.
Sardar Vir Singh
Dharam Singh, a cousin of Sardar Tara Singh Ghaiba, participated in the campaigns of the Khalsa, fighting against Mughals and Afghans in the second half of the eighteenth century, he took part in the conquest of Sirhind and the partition of territory by Sikhs in January 1764 when he occupied a cluster of villages and founded amid them his own Dharmsinghwala in Firozpur district in 1768, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1815.
Sardar Mohar Singh, died 1815.
Sardar Dal Singh, married and had issue. He died 1825.
Sardar Sher Singh, he was killed at Peshawar in 1836.
Sardar Gurdit Singh, an Honorary Magistrate; married and had issue. He died 1861.
Sardar Suchet Singh, born 1856, he converted to the Muslim faith and became known as Suchet Muhammed, married 1stly, a Hindu wife, married 2ndly, 1884, a Muslim lady, and had issue. He died 1890/1891.
Sardar Bhanga Singh, Jagirdar of Dharmsinghwala (by 1st wife), born 1881, on his father's death, he succeeded to the whole of the estate and jagir; married 1stly, in 1894 (sep'd.), Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, she was gifted the village of Kanuwala for her maintenance, she had issue, three sons and one daughter, married 2ndly, and had issue, as well as further issue. He died after 1935.
Harbans Singh, died 1911.
Balwant Singh, died 1920.
Sabajit Singh, died 1909.
Gurnam Singh, born 1922, he was granted the village of Ramgarh and a jagir worth Rs800 p.a.
Atal Deo Singh, born 1926.
Sardar Deva Singh, he and his older brother were confirmed at annexation in their jagirs that they inherited from their grandfather; married and had issue. He died 1875.
Sardar Bakhshish Singh, married and had issue. He died 1877.
Sardar Narain Singh, born 1876, a Kursi Nashin; married and had issue.
Kaka Raghbir Singh alias Sarjit Singh, born 1928.
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