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WADE, SIR CLAUDE MARTINE
Tags: wade, singh, sikh, political, ranjit, agent, assistant, lord, sikhs, relations, ludhiana, government
WADE, SIR CLAUDE MARTINE (1794-1861), soldier and diplomat, son of Lt.Col Joseph Wade of the Bengal army, was born on 3 April 1794. He joined the Bengal army in 1809 and was promoted lieutenant in 1815. He served in operations against Scindia and...
WAFA BEGAM
Tags: shah, begam, lahore, wafa, shuja, singh, khan, kohinoor, kabul, ranjit, sikhs, ludhiana
WAFA BEGAM, the senior wife of Shah Shuja, the king of Kabul, who after the dethronement of her husband came in February 1810 to Lahore where the Sikh sovereign, Ranjit Singh, made arrangements for her reception and accommodation suiting her status....
WAJAB UL-ARZ
Tags: singh, guru, manuscript, sikhs, brahmans, sikh, questions, gobind, preserved, wajab, rites, sikhan
WAJAB UL-ARZ, lit. a properly petition, is a section of Sikhan di Bhagat Mala, also known as Gursikkhan di Bhagatmal, a manuscript in Punjabi, Gurmukhi script, attributed to Bhai Mani Singh (d. 1737) the martyr, who had received the rites of...
WALI QANDHARl
Tags: mardana, guru, nanak, bhai, wali, water, hill, singh, qandhari, wall, panja, hasan
WALI QANDHARl (lit. Saint of Qandahar) was, according to a tradition popularized by Bhai Bala Janam Sakhi and Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Nanak Prakash, a Muslim recluse putting up on top of a hill near Hasan Abdal, now in Campbellpore (Attock)...
WAQI A-I-JANG-I-SIKKHAN
Tags: british, singh, pherushahr, sikh, sikhs, troops, guns, battle, cavalry, persian, officers, account
WAQI`AIJANGISIKKHAN, by Diwan Ajudhia Parshad, is a chronicle in Persian prose of the events of the first Anglo Sikh war (1845-46). The narratives of the battles of Pherushahr and Sabhraon have in fact been taken from two separate manuscripts. The...
WATHEN, GERARD ANSTRUTHER
Tags: wathen, college, khalsa, sikh, youth, singh, state, university, joined, people, hira, father
WATHEN, GERARD ANSTRUTHER (1878-1958), a British educator who came by much applause and friendliness at the hands of his Sikh pupils and their parents during his time as principal of the Khalsa College at Amritsar in the early part of the twentieth...
WAZIR SINGH, RAJA
Tags: singh, raja, faridkot, wazir, system, sahib, introduced, patiala, succeeded, bikram, reign, years
WAZIR SINGH, RAJA (1828-1874), succeeded in 1849 his father Raja Pahar Singh to the gaddi of Faridkot. A devout Sikh, Wazir Singh had received the rites of initiation at Gurdwara Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded. sacred to Guru Gobind Singh. He founded new...
WAZIRABAD
Tags: guru, singh, sikh, gurdwara, amritsar, kotha, khan, chand, shrines, khem, bhai, hargobind
WAZIRABAD (32"26`N, 74"7`E), a sub divisional town in Gujranwala district of Pakistan, is sacred to Guru Hargobind (1595-1644), who halted here briefly while returning from his visit to Kashmir in 1620. Bhai Khem Chand, a local Sikh, placed at the...
WAZIRKHAN, NAWAB
Tags: guru, singh, khan, gobind, wazir, sirhind, sikhs, anandpur, troops, sons, forty, bahadur
WAZIRKHAN, NAWAB (d. 1710), a resident of Kuhjpura, near Karnal, now in Haryana, was the faujdar of Sirhind under the Mughals in the opening years of the eighteenth century. The hill chiefs who held territories in the Sivalik ranges often sought his...
WAZJRKHAN
Tags: guru, singh, arjan, khan, 1633, shah, governor, wazir, bhai, suraj, granth, pratap
WAZIRKHAN (d. 1634) is the name popularly given by Sikh chroniclers to Hakim `Alim udDin, son of Shaikh `Abd ulLatif of Chiniot, a town now in Jhang district of Pakistan Punjab. Trained as a physician, he rose in favour with Emperor Shah Jahan, who...

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