Sikri

Sardar Tilok Singles ancestor, Bhag Singh, Sukerchakia, left his home in Bhara, Amritsar, to join the standard of Dhara Rao, a Mahratba adventurer, who towards the close of the eighteenth century had gathered around him some of the best blood of the Manjha, and dominated the country between Delhi and Patiala. It was this Dhara Rao who sold his services to the celebrated Diwan Nanu Mai of Patiala, and in concert with Raja Grajpat Singh of Jind, was the means of restoring the exiled Diwan and with him his young master. Raja Sahib Singh, to power in Patiala. DharaRao. rewarded Bhag Singh’s services with the grant of the Sikri Ilaka, consisting of six villages, taken from Sardar Bhanga Singh of Thanesar. Bhag Singh afterwards acted as agent for the Cis-Sutlej chiefs at Agra. He rendered himself useful to the British officials in the early days, and the revenues of three villages in the Delhi Parganct were assigned to him on a life-tenure in acknowledgment of his services. On his death in 1807, a life pension of Rs. 1,800 per annum was sanctioned for his son Mahtab Singh. Sardar Lehna Singh was at the head of the family during the Mutiny. He behaved loyally, and his services were recognized at the time. The present Sardar Tilok Singh is a Divisional Darbari. His jagir income is about Rs. 3,000 per annum and ho derives another Rs. 3,000 from land in the Karnal and Amritsar Districts.