KHARAK SINGH, a close associate of Bhai Maharaj Singh (d. 1856), saintly leader of the popular anti British uprising of 1848-49. Nothing is known about his early life except that he came of a Jatt Sikh family. He was arrested near Sham Chaurasi, Hoshiarpur district, along with Bhai Maharaj

NANAK CHAND (d. 1831), the eldest son of Hoshnak Rai and a brother of Diwan Savan Mall, governor of Multan in Sikh times, entered the service of Dal Singh of Akalgarh in 1788. He served that chief until his death in 1804 when the estate of Akalgarh, which was

SOHILA or KIRTAN SOHILA is, in sequence, the fourth barn or composition entered in the Guru Granth Sahib. Sohila is the caption given in the scripture, though it is popularly known as Kntan Sohila, and is also sometimes so captioned in the gutkas or breviaries. The Sohila comprises five