Aimahwala

About the year 1738, Natha Singh, an Uppal Jat, left his home at Lakrki, in the Gurdaspur district, and coming to Amritsar, rebuilt a ruined village, to which, in defiance of the rights of the late inhabitants he gave the name of Aimah, signifying land held in proprietary right. His son Swan Singh inherited not only this village but the jagirs of his uncle Dal Singh, who had been slain in a quarrel with Sirdar Sawa Singh Aimahwala. These estates were of considerable size, comprising many villages in the Daska, Pasrur and Ajnala Pargannahs, In the famine yoar of 1783, Sujan Singh contrived to seize Chahar bajwa in the Sialkot district, from Brij Raj Deo son of Raja Ranjit Deo. He was associated with the Bhangi misl, and fought under Sirdar Karam Singh. He died in 1799, and his eldest son,Nar Singh, still a youth, joined Gulab Singh Bhangi, who was chief of the confederacy formed against Bhatti Jat ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh soon after his capture of Lahore. An expedition was fitted out against him, which War Sing joined, but it was broken up by the death of Sirdar Gulab Singh from the effects of a prolonged debauch at Kothoni.

Soon after this, in 1803, Nar Singh joined Bhatti Jat ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and accompanied him in the Pindi Bhattian campaign, and later id the expedition against the Bhangis and the fort of Kallar which was bravely defended by Sidhu Jat Chief Jodh Singh Attariwala. In 1804 ho went with Ranjit Singh against Raja Sansar Chand of Katoch, who had tried to possess himself of a portion of the Jalandhar Doab, but who was defented near Hoshierpur and driven back to the hills. The next expedition shared in by Nar Singh was that against Hafiz Ahmad Khan, of Jhang, resulting in the imprisonment of that chief, and’the seizure of his estates.

He served in the fist unsuccessful campaign of Multan, and in both the Kashmir expeditions, under Diwan Ram Dyal in the Derah of Prince Kharrak Singh; and on the conquest of Kashmir received a Jagir of 14,000 Rs. at Samba in the Jammu territory. He fought in the battle of Tehri, in 1828, and served under Sirder Hari Singh Nalwa, in Narnh. In 1885-86 he accompanied the Sikh force, under Prince Kharak Singh Of Lahore , against the Mazaris of Mithankot.

When Aulakh Jat chief Jawahar Singh became minister, Nar Singh was treated with great favour, for he had married, as his second wife, an aunt of Maharani Jindan the sister of Jawahar Singh. He received the preseut of an elephant with gold housings, was placed in command of the Multan Regiment, and was sent with the Samba Sirdar against the insurgents who had ravaged the country in the neighbourhood of Phalian, Gujrat, and had looted the shrine of Ker Sahib, a place of some sanctity where

Guru Nanak had alept on the ” Keror heaps of earth thrown up by threats. The insurgents were speedily reluced to order, and the plundered property, in a grant measure, recovered. During the Satlej campaign Nar Singh served under Shergill Jat Chief Sirdar Ranjodh Singh Majithia. He remained faithful to Government during the Malotan rebellion, as did his contingent of sowars, and was sont to Find Dadan Khan under the orders of Misr Rallia Rama, Superintendent of the salt mines. He returned to Lahore with Raja Dina Nath, after the latter’s unsuccessful mission to Sirdar Chattar Singh. From the year 1825, when Sirdar Sher Singh’s principal Jagirs were resumed, he had only held jagirs worth 2,200 Rs. and cosh allowances of 3,761. Total 5,961 . His Jagir was, in 1840, confirmed to him for life. He was died about 80 years , and his resides was at Aimah his ancestral village.

Gulab Singh, brother of Nar Singh, served in the Majithia Regiment on 600 Rs. per annum. His daughter married Shergill Jat chief Sirdar Lehna Singh Majithia, but died within six months of her marriage, The third brother Sumukh Singh died young.