Arjan Singh Chahal
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Sardar Bahadur
| name = Arjan Singh Chahal
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| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE}}
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| office = Sarbarah
| status =
| term_start = 1890
| term_end = 1896
| predecessor = Man Singh Waraich
| successor = Jawala Singh
| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1839}}
| death_date = {{Death date text|1908}}
| birth_place = Chahal, Amritsar, Punjab
| father = Javala Singh
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Sardar Bahadur Arjan Singh Chahal {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1839–1908) was a Sikh honourary magistrate and civil judge who served as the manager of Darbar Sahib and the Akal Takht, as a sarbarah appointed by the British Raj from 1890 to 1896.{{cite book |last1=Myrvold |first1=Kristina |title=Sikh News in India, 1864-1924: Colonial Reports on Vernacular Newspapers of Punjab Volume Two: Religious Places, Practices, and Relations |date=2 December 2024 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-70708-5 |access-date=10 March 2025 |language=en}}
Early life
Arjan Singh Chahal was born in village Chahal, Amritsar, British India to a Jat Sikh family of Chahal clan in 1839. He was seven when his father Javala Singh died in 1846.{{cite web|url=http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/sikh-political-figures/arjan-singh-chahal|title=Arjan Singh Chahal|publisher=The Sikh Encyclopedia.com|accessdate=27 December 2011}}
He held large jagirs in the Tarn Taran tehsil and in the Lyallpur District, present day Punjab, Pakistan.{{cite book|last=Nijjar|first=B. S.|title=Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India|publisher=Atlantic Publishers and Distributors|date=10 December 2007|pages=400|isbn=978-81-269-0908-7}}
Sarbarah
From 1890 to 1896, Chahal served as the British Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar appointed sarbarah of Darbar Sahib and the Akal Takht. He was appointed president of the 11-member lighting committee set up in 1896 to arrange the installation of electricity in the Darbar Sahib complex.
Honours
He received the title of Sardar Bahadur in 1894, and was made a Companion of the Indian Empire in 1906.