Explore Amir Chand's journey from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's treasury to his dismissal post Anglo-Sikh War, amidst duty and defalcation controversies.
BHAGAT RAM, BAKHSHI (1799-1865), son of Baisakhi Ram, a small moneychanger in the city of Lahore, joined the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1818 at the age of nineteen as a writer in the treasury office under Misr Belt Ram, the chief to shakhama or keeper of the State treasury. In 1824, he was appointed assistant writer of the accounts of the privy purse. In 1831, he was deputed to accompany Kanvar Sher Singh to the hills of Jalandhar Doab to collect revenue from the defaulting states of Mandi, Suket and Kullu. He came back to Lahore in 1832 and was appointed paymaster of fifty battalions of infantry, eight regiments of cavlary and twenty batteries of artillery.
Explore Gurmukh Singh's pivotal role during the Anglo-Sikh wars as a close ally of Bhai Maharaj Singh in the 1848-49 revolt against British rule.
