1. IBRAHIM, SHAIKH

IBRAHIM, SHAIKH (Shaikh Farid of the Janam Sakhi), twelfth in succession from the famous Sufi saint, Shaikh Farid udDin GanjiShakar (11731266), held the seat of the earlier Shaikh at Pakpattan in the present Sahiwal (former Montgomery) district of Pa...

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2. ILAHI BAKHSH

ILAHI BAKHSH, an officer in Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s army who commanded the special artillery wing of FaujiKhas and a portion of the artillery corps named DerahiIlahi Bakhsh. General Ilalu Bakhsh`s lopkhdnd look part in most of the military campaigns ...

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3. IMAM SHAH

IMAM SHAH (d. 1846), who rose to be a colonel in Ranjit Singh`s army entered the service ofJodh Singh ofWazirabad in 1809 as an artillery Jamadar. He was of Persian descent and a grandson of Qamar udDin, an officer in the army of Nadir Shah. In 1810,...

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4. IMAM UD-DIN, FAQIR

IMAM UDDIN, FAQIR (d. 1847), second son of Ghulam Mohly udDTn and younger brother of Faqir `Azi/ udDin, foreign minister to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was Qiladar or garrison commander of the Gobindgarh Fort at Amritsar, where the bulk of the Sikh crown ...

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5. IMAM UD-DIN, SHAIKH

IMAM UDDIN, SHAIKH (18191859), who succeeded his father, Shaikh Ghulam Mohly udDin, as governor of the Sikh province of Kashmir in 1845, had earlier served under Kanvar Nau Nihal Singh in the Derajat and had in 1840 assisted his father in the campaig...

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