Ahluwalia (misl)

Different scholars variously name the misl's founder as Sadho Singh,{{cite book |author=G. S. Chhabra |title=Advanced History of the Punjab: Ranjit Singh & post Ranjit Singh period |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0u0CAAAAMAAJ |year=1972 |publisher=New Academic |page=21 |quote=Its founder was one Sadhu Singh, a jat of the Kalal or distiller caste. But the true founder of the confederacy was Jussa Singh... }}{{cite book |author=Surjit Singh Gandhi |title=Sikhs in the Eighteenth Century: Their Struggle for Survival and Supremacy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiluAAAAMAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Singh Bros |isbn=978-81-7205-217-1 |page=393 |quote=The Misl was founded by Sadda Singh who was Jat by race and Kalal (wine distiller) by profession and lived seven miles east of Lahore in a village named Ahlu which gave its name to the Misl}} his descendant Bagh Singh,{{cite book |author=Gurbachan Singh Nayyar |title=Sikh Polity and Political Institutions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRRDAAAAYAAJ |year=1979 |publisher=Oriental |page=120 |quote=The founder of Ahluwalia misl was Bagh Singh.}}{{cite book |author=Khazan Singh |title=History of the Sikh religion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXE9AAAAIAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=Department of Languages, Punjab |page=289 |quote=The real founder of the misl was Sardar Bagh Singh, Kalal, of Hallo-Sadho. He was initiated with pahaul by Bhai Mani Singh in Sambat in 1771 (1714 A D ) and soon after that became leader of a considerable body of troops.}} or Bagh Singh's nephew Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.{{cite book |author=Jagjiwan Mohan Walia |title=Parties and politics at the Sikh court, 1799-1849 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEtuAAAAMAAJ |year=1982 |publisher=Master |page=6 |quote=The Ahluwalia Misl was founded by Jassa Singh, who belonged to village Ahlu.}}{{cite book |author=Harish Jain |title=The Making of Punjab |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLCBJiEHs4cC&pg=PA201 |year=2003 |publisher=Unistar |page=201 |quote=Ahluwalia Misl - This was founded by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and was named after his village Ahlu.}}

The misl rose to prominence under Jassa Singh,{{cite book |last =Singhia |first=H.S. |title=The encyclopedia of Sikhism |publisher=Hemkunt Press |year=2009 |location=New Delhi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqIbJz7vMn0C&pg=PA111 |isbn=978-81-7010-301-1 |page=111}} who was the first person to use the name "Ahluwalia". Originally known as Jassa Singh Kalal, he styled himself as Ahluwalia after his ancestral village of Ahlu.{{cite book |author=Donald Anthony Low |title=Soundings in Modern South Asian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfD02m8q8eYC&pg=PA70 |year=1968 |publisher=University of California Press |page=70-71 |oclc=612533097 }}

Even after other misls lost their territories to Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire, the emperor permitted the descendants of Jassa Singh to retain their estates. After the British took over the Sikh territories in 1846, Jassa Singh's descendants became the ruling family of the Kapurthala State.{{cite book |author=W. H. McLeod |title=The A to Z of Sikhism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgixwfeCyDAC&pg=PA6 |year=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6344-6 |page=6 }}

• Jassa Singh (1777 – 20 October 1783){{Cite web |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/k/kapurthala.html |title=Kapurthala |access-date=2021-01-05 |archive-date=2018-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808230543/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/k/kapurthala.html |url-status=dead }} (b. 1718 – d. 1783){{Cite news|url=http://www.royalfamilyofindia.com/kapurthala/|title=KAPURTHALA|date=2013-04-12|work=Royal Family of India|access-date=2018-01-09|language=en-US}}
• Bhag Singh Ahluwalia (20 October 1783 – 10 July 1801) (b. 1747 – d. 1801){{cn|date=June 2020}}

• Fateh Singh Ahluwalia (10 July 1801 – 20 October 1837) (b. 1784 – d. 1837){{cite web |title=History {{!}} Kapurthala Web Portal {{!}} India |url=https://kapurthala.gov.in/history/ |publisher=Government of India |access-date=25 December 2020}}[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/AFH9527.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext A history of the Sikhs, from the origin of the nation to the battles of the Sutlej.] Cunningham, Joseph Davey, 1812-1851., Garrett, H. L. O. ed. (Herbert Leonard Offley), 1881-1941{{cite book |last1=Griffin |first1=Lepel Henry |title=Ranjit Singh |year=1892 |publisher=Oxford : Clarendon press |url=https://archive.org/details/ranjitsingh00grif}}
• Nihal Singh (20 October 1837 – 13 September 1852) (b. 1817 – d. 1852)
• Randhir Singh (13 September 1852 – 12 March 1861) (b. 1831 – d. 1870)

• Randhir Singh (12 March 1861 – 2 April 1870) (b. 1831 – d. 1870)
• Kharak Singh (2 April 1870 – 3 September 1877) (b. 1850 – d. 1877)
• Jagatjit Singh (3 September 1877 – 12 December 1911) (b. 1872 – d. 1949)

• Jagatjit Singh (12 December 1911 – 15 August 1947) (b. 1872 – d. 1949)
• Paramjit Singh (b. 1892 - d. 1955)
• Brigadier Sukhjit Singh MVC(b. 1934)

• Tikka Raja Shatrujit Singh (b. 1961){{cite web |title=An undivided India? |url=https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-big-fight/an-undivided-india-100356 |publisher=NDTV |accessdate=19 October 2020 |language=English |date=29 August 2009}}

File:Equestrian painting of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Punjab Plains, circa 1859.jpg|Equestrian painting of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Punjab Plains, circa 1850

File:Bhag Singh Ahluwalia.jpg|Miniature painting of Bhag Singh Ahluwalia, ca.1785

File:Painting of Raja Fateh Singh Ahluwalia of Kapurthala State.jpg|Painting of Raja Fateh Singh Ahluwalia

File:Fateh Singh Ahluwalia.png|Raja Fateh Singh Ahluwalia, CIE

File:Photograph of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia's haveli.jpg|Photograph of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia's haveli

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