Kot Shayed Mahmud

Jai Singh, a Sandhu Jat of Kot Sayad Mahmud, a small village two miles from the city of Amritsar, was a trooper in the employ of Sardar Gulab Singh Bhangi. In the year 1809 Maharaja Ranjit Singh married Jai Singh’s daughter Rup Kaur, and this marriage made the fortane of the family s for the Ilaka Akhnur, worth Rs. 80,000, was assigned to Charat Singh and Bhup Singh, subject to the servioe of two hundred horsemen. They held it for tifteen years, when was resumed; and Charat Singh obtained instead the jagir of Dharuwal, worth Rs. 2,500, free of service, with the com mandantship of an irregular regiment. In the year 1881 Charat Singh was severely wounded at the battle of Sayadki.

Sarai, fought against Sayad Ahmad Shah by Prince Sher Singh. Bhup Singh was killed in the Khaibar in 1840, and his estate of Rs. 2,000 was assigned to his sons. In 1848 the family, with but few exceptions, joined the rebels, and the jagirs they had enjoyed were confiscated. Charat Singh received a pension of Rs. 100 per annum, and Rani’ Rup Kaur, who died in 1878, a pension of Rs. 1,980. The family also holds a fifth share in the village of Kot Sayad Mahmud.Rani Rup Kaur adopted Sundar Singh, grandson of her brother Gulab Singh; and he inherited all her movable property, which is said to have been very valuable.