Sardar Sanwal Singh of Chamyari, was the brave Randhawa Jat who was the founder of the Chamyari estate, and became a member of the Bhangi Misl around 1750. He fought under Hari Singh Bhangi in many battles. He took the possession of a large tract of country on the left bank of river Ravi, including Ajnala and Chamyari. Sanwal Singh was killed in battle leaving no issue, but his widow Mai Malkian made over the estate to Nar Singh, a cousin of her deceased husband. This arrangement was confirmed by the Gurmata and Nar Singh the acknowledged heir of all Sanwal Singh’s estates.
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- Qazi Nur Muhammed, Jang Naina , (NP), 1865, Edited by Ganda Singh, Amritsar, 1939, pp. 59-60; R. Creathed, R.A. Prinsep, R Temple, J. H. Mooris, W. Blyth, Esquires, Report on the Revised Settlement of Purgunah Narowal Tulwandee of the Umritsar District in the Umritsar Divission, Lahore, 1860, p. 148, PSAP, (after here given as SR Narowal District Amritsar): lndu Banga, Agrarian System of the Sikhs, New Delhi, 1978, pp. 140-41.
- Ganesh Das Badehra, Char-Bagh-i-Punjab, folio nos. 142-43; Prinsep, E.A., Report on the Revised Settlement of Sealkote District in the Amritsur Division, Lahore, 1865, p. 48, PSAP, (here after given as SR Sialkot District); H T, Prinsep, Origin of the Sikh Power, p. 48.
- Khushwaqat Rai, Tarikh-i-Halat-i-Sikhan, folio no. 130, DHPS, PUP; Lepel Griffin, The Punjab Chiefs, Vol-I, pp. 364-65.