1885.] C. J. Rodgers —Some Coins of Can jit Deo. 63 
and trusted people since 1675 A. D., in wliieli year some Sweepers 
rescued tlie mutilated body of tlie Guru Tegli Bahadur from the streets 
of Dehli where it had been exposed by Aurangzeb. We have several 
regiments of Mazhabi Sikhs in our Indian army at the present day, and 
their deeds in arms show that “ trust breeds trust.”) He adds that 
Ranjit Deo gave Jai Singh 150,000 rupees for the assistance he had 
rendered. But here as in other places he gives us no clue as to when 
the event happened. There is a dispute as to whether this affair took 
place in 1771 or 1774. The latter date seems to be supported by the 
best authorities. The histories of Kashmir that I have consulted say 
nothing at all about Ranjit Deo. 
Jummu figures little in history after this. In 1812 A. D., Ranjit 
Singh, although busy with his plans for obtaining the Koh-i-Niir diamond 
from the blind refugee Shah Zaman, found time for making arrange- 
ments for the conquest of the hill states south of the Kashmir valley,, 
Jummu was captured by his newly married son Kharrak Singh, says 
Cunningham in his History of the Sikhs. Kanhiya Lai says* that 
Diwan Bhawani Das took Jummu from the Pahari Dogra Dedo in an 
expedition which lasted only one month. He also tells usf that Kasiir 
Singh the father of the three brothers who made such a figure in tho 
court of Ranjit Singh,—Dliyan Singh, Gulab Singh and Suchet Singh—- 
was a descendant of the Rajas of Jummu. In Macgregor’s History of 
the Sikhs, Yol. I, p. 168, J we read “ During this year (1812), Bhai 
Ram Singh, who was the Peshkar of Kharrak Singh, received Jummu, 
in jagir.” From these three somewhat different accounts we may learn 
that Jummu was conquered by the Lion of the Pan jab in 1812. 
In the Urdu Tarikh-i-Makhazan-i-Panjab by Gulam Sarwar pub¬ 
lished by Hawwal Kishore we have without dates a genealogical table 
which is interesting although I cannot vouch for its correctness, and 
which is given at the end of this paper. 
The author tells us that in the time of Brij Raj Deo matters were 
in the greatest confusion in Jummu. He does not tell us whether he 
had any family or not. The Dogra Raja Dedo mentioned by Kanhiya 
Lai may be his son. I regret that I can give no dates and so little 
information about Ranjit Deo. I think, however, that I have shown who 
he was and the position that he held in the Panjab at a time when its 
history is little known. The time in which he lived was one of utter 
lawlessness, yet his little state was the abode of peace and safety 
((jUAfjD). The Afghan Ahmad Shah had overrun the Panjab. 
# Urdu History of tlie Panjab, p. 209. 
f Ibid., p. 259. 
$ London, James Madden 1846. 
