PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The ancestor of the family was a Shergil Jat of Mansurwal,
in Firozpur district. This misl took the name of
Nishanwalia because they carried the Nishan Sahib, the
Sikh flag in the battle and were kept as a reserve force
at Amritsar. Their territory was Ambala, Rupar and
Anandpur Sahib. Several hill chiefs paid tribute to this
misl. Members were....
- Gill, he was a Jat zamindar of Rajput Raghubanshi
descent, married two wives, and had issue, as well as
further issue by seven concubines, twelve sons in all.
He lived around 1365.
- Shergil, married and had issue, four sons, two
died sp.
- Ranadhar, married and had issue, the Majithia
family.
- Jubal, married and had issue, Sardar Dewa Singh
in the 20th generation.
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Chaudhari Sahib Rai, from the village of
Mansur, in Firozpur district of the Punjab,
married and had issue.
- Sardar Dasaundha Singh (qv)
- Unknown
- Sawan Singh [Saman or Soman Singh], married
and had issue.
- Sapha Singh, he held Sonti bravely against
the attack of Raja Jaswant Singh of Nabha,
and later in 1806, he held his own fort of
Jhangir against Maharaja Ranjit Singh,
married and had issue.
- Fateh Singh, he entered the service of
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and under Diwan
Mokham Chand, he became a very
distinguished soldier, he was granted
Jhangir Burj and Brampur in jagir, as well
as large cash allowances, later he fell
into disgrace and his jagirs north of the
Sutlej were resumed, he then retired to
his estate of Sonti, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Bahadur Dewa Singh, born 1802,
he entered military service under
Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1816 at a very
young age, then made Commandant of the
regiment of his brother, he was
transferred to the Gurkha regiment to
serve in Hazara in 1842, later he was
posted at Dera Isma'il Khan in command
of the Surajmukhi regiment, in 1848 he
served with distinction under General
Van Cortlandt, in 1853, he was selected
to raise and command the Seventh Police
Battalion at Amritsar, where he
preserved order in the city and upheld
the civil authority on the eve of the
uprising of 1857, for his services, he
was granted the Star of the Order of
British India with the title of Sardar
Bahadur and a personal allowance of
1.200Rs p.a., on his retirement on 1st
1st January 1861, he received a special
pension of 3,000Rs p.a., and a grant of
six hundred acres of waste land with
proprietory rights, married and had
issue. He died 1872.
- Sardar Amar Singh, born 1853/1856,
Secretary of the Local Board in Zira,
a Provincial Darbari and Zaildar of
his ilaka, betrothed to a daughter of
Sardar Kahn Singh Nakkai.
- Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur,
born 1860.
- Sardar Ishwar Singh, born 1862, died
1866.
- Sardar Kirpal Singh, born 1873.
- Panjab Singh, born 1834, married and
had issue.
- Dal Singh, married and had issue.
- Wazir Singh, married and had issue.
-
Sardar Dasaundha Singh, 1st
misldhar of Nishanwalia misl 1748/1757, he
received pahul at the hands of Diwan Darbara Singh,
a prominent Sikh leader, by 1734, he was a leading
figure in the Taruna Dal and was proclaimed the
leader of the Nishanawalia misl in 1748, he took
possession of Singhariwala in Firozpur district,
Sahneval, Sarai Lashkari Khan, Doraha, Amioh, Zira
and Ambala in January 1764 after the conquest of
Sirhind. He was killed in May 1767 at Meerut in a
sudden attack by Jahan Khan and Zabita Khan.
- Sardar Sangat Singh,
2nd misldhar of Nishanwalia misl 1767/1774, chivalrous
and brave as his brother, he attacked Sirhind for the
second time, he built a brick wall around the town of
Ambala, his capital, to provide it protection against
robbers, married a sister of Dhian Singh.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Sardar Jai Singh Nishanwalia, married and had issue.
- Bibiji Daya Kaur, died 1823, she married Raja
Jaswant Singh of Nabha.
- Lal Singh, married and had issue.
- Anup Singh
- Mohar Singh, he was a prominent leader of the
Nishananwalia misl, he added Ambala and Zira to the
territories he had inherited and soon became an
influential figure among the cis-Sutlej chiefs, he
signed a treaty of friendship with the Marathas on
9th May 1785, married twice (including his brothers
widow, by chaddardalna).
He died 1785 at Ambala in a feud with Gurbakhsh
Singh of Morinda.
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