ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>AJUDHI&#256 PARSH&#256D D&#298W&#256N (1799-1870)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="AJUDHI,PARSHD,D*WN,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279AJUDHI&#256 PARSH&#256D, D&#298W&#256N (1799-1870), soldier and civil administrator in Sikh times, was the adopted son of D&#299w&#257n Ga&#7749g&#257 R&#257m. Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh first employed Ajudhi&#257 Parsh&#257d in 1819 to serve in the military office in Kashm&#299r. Three years later, he was recalled to Lahore and appointed paymaster of the special brigade (Fauj-i-<u>Kh</u>&#257s), organized by Generals Allard and Ventura. After the death in 1826 of D&#299w&#257n Ga&#7749g&#257 R&#257m, Ajudhi&#257 Parsh&#257d received the title of D&#299w&#257n and was assigned to a variety of duties. As a protocol officer, he received in 1831 Alexander Burnes at Mult&#257n. In 1839, he accompanied the army of the Indus under Sir John Keane. Later, in 1840, he took charge of the Fauj-i-<u>Kh</u>&#257s and in 1843, he became its permanent commander. At the end of the Anglo-Sikh war in February 1846, when the Sikh army crossed the Sutlej to wage war with the British, he resigned. However, after the treaty of 16 March 1846, he was assigned, along with Captain Abbott to demarcating the boundary between Kashm&#299r and the Punjab. The British government granted him an annual pension of 7, 500 rupees. From April 1849 to September 1851, he remained on duty with the deposed young prince, Duleep Si&#7749gh.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D&#299w&#257n Ajudhi&#257 Parsh&#257d has chronicled in Persian prose the events of the first Anglo-Sikh war (1845-46). The narrative, an eyewitness account of the battles of Pher&#363shahr and Sabhr&#257o&#7749, has been translated into English by V. S. S&#363r&#299 and published under the title <i>Waq&#257i-Ja&#7749g-i-Sikh&#257&#7749. </i></p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ajudhi&#257 Parsh&#257d died in 1870.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, Sohan L&#257l <i> 'Umd&#257t-ut-Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u>. </i> Lahore, 1885-89<BR> <li class="C1"> Griffin, Lepel, and C. F. Massy, <i>Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab. </i> Lahore, 1909<BR> <li class="C1"> Gupta, Hari Ram, <i>Punjab on the Eve of the First Sikh War</i>. Chandigarh, 1956<BR> <li class="C1"> S&#363r&#299, V. S. , ed. , <i>Waq&#257i-Ja&#7749g-i-Sikh&#257&#7749. </i> Chandigarh, 1975<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Har&#299 R&#257m Gupta<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>