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KOTKAPURA (30°35`N, 74°49`E), town in FarTdkot district of the Punjab, was founded by Ghaudhari Kzpura (d. 1708), a Brar chief in the country south of the River Sutlej and an ancestor of the Faridkot family. When after evacuating Anandpur Guru Gobind Singh arrived here in December 1705 pursued by the
JHANDA RAMDAS. popularly called Ramdas, a village in Amritsar district of the Punjab, celebrates Baba Buddha of revered memory in the Sikh tradition. His son, Bhai Bhana, founded this village and named it after his own grandson, Jhanda, and the family shifted here from their ancestral village ofKatthu Narigal. The
AJRANA KALAN, village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, 12 km southwest of Shahabad (30°lb`N, 76°53`E), is sacred to Guru Tegh Bahadur who stopped here in 1670 while on his way from Delhi to join his family at Lakhnaur. A Manji Sahib established to commemorate the visit of the Guru exists
RAM SINGH (1639-1714), Ram Chand before receiving the Sikh rites, was an ancestor of the ruling house of Patiala. The second son of Chaudhari Phul, he was married to Sahbi, daughter of one Nanu Bhullar, who gave birth to six sons Dunna, Sahba, Ala Singh, Bakhta,
CHAUPA SINGH (d. 1724), earlier name Chaupati Rai, was a prominent Sikh in the retinue of Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621-75) and then of Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708). He was born in a Chhibbar (Brahman) family of Kariala, a village in Jehlum district, now in Pakistan. His grandfather, Gautam, had
KAPUR SINGH (1628-1708), an ancestor of the Fandkot ruling house, was born the son of Lala in 1628. He succeeded in 1643 his uncle, Bhallan, to the chaudhanat or headship of the Brar Jatts. He was a brave and able man, and consolidated his possessions winning many victories over
RAJINDAR KAUR, BIBI (1739-1791) or Rajindari, Patiala princess known for her valorous qualities, was the granddaughter of Baba Ala Singh. The only child of her father, Bhumla Singh, who had died when she was barely four, she was brought up by her grandfather, and, in 1751, married to Chaudhari
CHHOTA MIRZAPUR, a village in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, 18 km south of Varanasi (25 20`N, 82 58`E), is sacred to Guru Gobind Singh. He broke journey at Chhota Mirzapur while travelling as a child from Patna, his birthplace, to the Punjab. A Sikh sangat developed here in
KARAM SINGH, BHAI (1891-1921), one of the Nankana Sahib martyrs, was born on 5 Assu 1948 Bk/19 September 1891, the son of Bhat Hakam Singh and Mat Kisso of Lahuke village in Amritsar district. The family had migrated to the Lower Chenab Canal Colony and settled in Chakk 75
SADHAR, village in Ludhiana district, 20 km north of Raikot (30°39`N, 75°37`E), claims a historical shrine, Gurdwara Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Patshahi Chhevin Guru Sar, popularly designated Guru Sar Sadhar. Guru Hargobind made a brief halt here during one of his tours of Malva country. According to local tradition,
CHUHAR SINGH, owning allegiance to the Shahid misi, was a close relation of the Bhangi sardar, Rai Singh, the conqueror of Jagadhri and Dialgarh. He received the Jarauli area as his share of the spoils after the sack of Sirhind in January 1764. He retained ten villages for himself
KARAM SINGH RANGHAR NANGALIA was the son of Natlha Singh, who was the first in the family to have become a Sikh and who had joined the Kanhaiya misl under Jai Singh and ravaged the country around Rarighar Narigal, near the town of Baiala in Gurdaspur district. At Rarighar
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