PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY: The ancestors of the family belonged to
the village of Rasulpur, Tarn Taran in Amritsar district
of the Punjab. The founder of the family was Jodh Singh, a
jagirdar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Estate holders
were....
- Sujan Singh, a Jat Sikh, he left the Manjha in
around 1760, as one of the Sukerchakia misl, and
acquired large estates in Ambala and in the Jullundur
Doab, married and had issue.
- Sardar Jodh Singh, he was driven out of the Moli
ilaqa in Ambala by the Kalsia Chief, and later his
family lost most of their possessions in Hoshiarpur
and Jullundur; he was granted a jagir worth Rs10,000
by Maharaja Ranjit Singh on condition of military
service, this was reduced to Rs2,000 after
annexation in 1849, this grant was resumed on his
death, a portion in mauza Rurki was continued as a
compassionate allowance to his heirs; married and
had issue. He died 1857.
- Sarmukh Singh, married and had issue.
- Taran Singh, married and had issue.
- Narayan Singh
- Narendra Singh, married and had issue, four
sons.
- Hira Singh, married and had issue.
- Ganda Singh, married and had issue.
- Gurmukh Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Punjab Singh (see below)
- Tehil Singh, his descendants live in Hoshiarpur,
where the village of Rurki, granted by Maharaja
Ranjit Singh to Jodh Singh, is still in the
possession of the family, married and had issue.
- Attar Singh
- Chattar Singh
- Ram Singh, born 1839, married and had issue.
- Kehar Singh, born 1873, married and had
issue, three sons.
- Rup Singh, his descendants live in Hoshiarpur,
where the village of Rurki, granted by Maharaja
Ranjit Singh to Jodh Singh, is still in the
possession of the family, married and had issue.
- Sham Singh, married and had issue.
- Nihal Singh, a Risaldar in the Oudh Police; he
wqas granted a property jagir of Rs50 and 45
acres of land in Banawalipur Rakh in the Tarn
Taran tahsil; he was also awarded the Order of
Merit; married and had issue.
- Parsa Singh, married and had issue.
- Bhagwan Singh, a zaildar, Member of the
District Board, and a Divisional Darbari, he
is connected by marriage to the Jandiala
Sardars, and had issue, three sons.
- Pritam Singh, he served as a Jamadar
during WWI and afterwards he was appointed
Sub-Inspector of the Mounted Police
- Balwant Singh, a clerk in the
Agriculture Department.
- Harbant Singh, appointed a
Naib-Tahsildar.
- Harsa Singh, born 1886, married and had
issue.
- Man Singh, married and had issue.
- Risaldar Major Sardar Bahadur PANJAB SINGH,
Head of the Family and 1st Taluqdar of Aira
[15.2.1869] - [xx.12.1869], born 180x at Rasulpur, in
present day Amritsar district, he became a soldier in
Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Ghorcharas (irregular cavalry)
in 1834, and after annexation in the army of the
British having enlisted on 4th May 1849, in the newly
raised 2nd Punjab Cavalry, and promoted to Naib
Risaldar on 1st June 1849 and then to Risaldar on 21st
January 1857, he took part in British operations in
1857 for the relief of Delhi, Lucknow and several
other places, he was decorated with the 2nd Class
Order of British India and was granted the title of
"Bahadur" on 7th June 1858 and promoted to Risaldar
Major, early the following year, in January 1859, he
was appointed commandant of the 5th Regiment of the
Mounted Police, Oudh (now eastern Uttar Pradesh), he
joined the 2nd Regiment of the Central India Horse as
Risaldar Major on 15th February 1861, he was awarded
the 1st class Order of British India, with the title
of "Sardar Bahadur" on 15th February 1869, he was
awarded a jagir in Oudh in recognition of military
service rendered by him after the annexation of the
Punjab to the British dominions, including during the
uprising of 1857, this grant of land was worth about
4,000 rupees per annum in the Kheri district of Oudh,
he was further given an estate of 700 acres in Rakh
Sukerchak, Amritsar district, on the proviso of an
annual payment of 584 rupees, married and had issue.
He died in December 1869 at Rasulpur.
- Sardar Jwala Singh (qv)
- Ala Singh, a distinguished soldier, he served in
the Central India Horse, married and had issue, two
sons. He died 1870.
- Rao Bahadur Teja Singh, born 1859, a Risaldar in
the 11th Bengal Lancers, he accompanied the
Boundary Commission and rendered good service in
the Panjdeh incident, for which he was granted the
title of Rao Bahadur; married and had issue.
- Lieutenant Mula Singh, he received a
commission and joined the 11th Bengal Lancers in
1902; he rose to the rank of Honorary Lieutenant
and served in France during WWI where he was
wounded; he retired from the army in 1916 and
was appointed Superintendent of Post Offices; he
was awarded a sword, a sanad and five squares of
land; married and had issue.
- Bibiji (name
unknown) Kaur (eldest daughter),
married Sardar Gurdayal Singh Mann of Mogalchak,
and had issue.
- Bhagat Singh, born 1869, married and had issue.
- Chanda Singh, he was a Wardi-Major in the 11th
Bengal Lancers, he died 1874.
- Sardar JWALA SINGH, Head of the Family and
2nd Taluqdar of Aira 1869/1897, he was a Zaildar, a
Member of the District Committee and Divisional
Darbari; he added to his possession in Kheri with the
purchase of 14 additional villages if Rs5,500 revenue;
his property at Rasulpur was small, only amounting to
500 bighas of land, all his possessions were split
equally between his two sons; married and had issue,
two sons. He died 1897.
- Sardar Sant Singh (qv)
- Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh, second son (qv)
- Bibiji (name
unknown) Kaur, youngest daughter, she
married Sardar Basant Singh Attariwala,
he died 1905, and had issue, one son.
- Sardar SANT SINGH,
Head of the Family 1897/1913 and joint Taluqdar of
Aira, he served for 15 years in the Central India
Horse, and retired as a Risaldar; besides his share of
property in Oudh, he owned 20 squares of land in
Gujranwala and 275 bighas in Amritsar district; he was
a Divisional Darbari, married into the Ghanauli and
Nakai families, and had issue. He died 1913.
- Sardar Parampal Singh, born 1904, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore; he was a keen sportsman
and golfer; he was awarded the rank of Honorary
Captain by the HH the Raja of Mandi; married and had
issue.
- Sardar Gajindarpal Singh, born 1933, married
Sardarni (name
unknown) Kaur, grand-daughter of Rao Raja
Raghunath Singh of Bharatpur.
- Sardar Prithipal Singh, born 1906, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore; married Bibiji (name unknown)
Kaur, daughter of Sardar Harbans Singh Attariwala,
and his wife, a daughter of Rao Umrao Singh of
Kuchai (?Kuchesar), and had issue, three sons.
- Sardar Sir JOGENDRA SINGH, Head of the Family
1913/1946 and joint Taluqdar of Aira 1897/1946, born
25th May 1877 at Aira, in Kheri district in the United
Provinces, he was self-educated, appointed Home
Minister in Patiala State in 1911, nominated to the
Punjab Legislative Council in 1926 and appointed
minister for Agriculture and Public Works till 1937,
he was knighted in 1929, a pioneer in tractor
cultivation, he laid the foundation of mechanized
farming in the Punjab, in collaboration with Sundar
Singh Majithia, he founded the Khalsa National Party
in 1936 which won a majority of the Sikh seats at
polls in the 1937 elections under the Government of
India Act of 1935, retired but was appointed Prime
Minister of Patiala State, nominated a member of the
Viceroy's Executive Council in July 1942, his
portfolio included the departments of Health, Lands
and Education; he served as Pro-Chancellor of Delhi
University as well as serving on several committees
and commissions, including, the Indian Sugar
Committee, the Indian Taxation Enquiry Commission, and
the Indian Sandhurst Committee; also a Fellow of the
Panjab University; he worked for the Chief Khalsa
Diwan, the Khalsa College Managing Council and the
Sikh Educational Conference, presiding over four of
its annual sessions, he was also one of the founders
of the Khalsa Defence of India League and a member of
the Sikh delegation meeting the Cripps Mission on
behalf of the Sikhs on 31st March 1942; married a
member of the Atari family, and had issue, two sons
and at least two daughters. He died of a paralytic
stroke on 3rd December 1946 at Iqbal Nagar, Montgomery
district, now in Pakistan.
- Sardar Jatinder Singh, born 1894, educated at
Magdalen College, Cambridge.
- Bibiji (name
unknown) Kaur, married (as his 2nd wife),
married Sardar Gurbachan Singh Jalawalia of
Alawalpur, born 1891, and had issue.
- Sardar Prabh Indar Singh, born 1923.
- Sardar Maniv Indar Singh, born 1933.
- Bibiji Mahinder Kaur, married The Hon'ble
Lieutenant Sardar Buta Singh Naushahria C.B.E., Head
of the Naushahra
Nangli Jagirdari Family, born 1903, and had
issue.
- Sardar Iqbal Singh, born 1911, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore, at the Maclagan
Engineering College at Moghalpura, and completed his
education at Loughborough College in England;
married and had issue.
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