Sardar Chattar Singh Attariwalla | |
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.jpg) Portrait of SardarChattar Singh Attariwala, with his second son,Attar Singh, byColesworthey Grant, 1853 | |
| Died | (1855-12-27)27 December 1855 |
Chattar Singh Attariwalla, also speltChatar Singh Aṭārīvālā, wasGovernor ofHazara province and amilitary commander in the army of theSikh Empire during the reign ofMaharaja Duleep Singh in thePunjab. He fought in theSecond Anglo-Sikh war against the British.
Chatar Singh was the son of Jodh Siṅgh Aṭārīvālā. He had two sons, RajaSher Singh Attariwalla and Avtār Singh. Sher Singh commanded the Sikh army which fought against theBritish East India Company at theBattle of Chillianwala.[1] His daughter Tej Kaur was betrothed to Duleep Singh, but after theFirst Anglo-Sikh War the British Resident,Sir Frederick Currie did not honour the betrothal.
On the death of his father in August 1815, Chatar Singh inherited largejagirs and occupied himself with farming his estates. He rose to political prominence in 1843, after the assassination of MaharajaSher Singh, and his daughter Tej Kaur was betrothed to Maharaja Duleep Singh. In 1846 he was made Governor of Peshawar and the following year the Council of Regency recommended him for the title ofRaja, but he asked that the title should instead be conferred on his son, Sher Singh.
In 1848 he was appointed Governor of the Hazara province. There he came into conflict with CaptainJames Abbott, the British Deputy Commissioner of the Hazara District. Abbott alleged that Chatar Singh was conspiring to subvert British authority in the Punjab. The British Resident at Lahore,Sir Frederick Currie commissioned an investigation by CaptainJohn Nicholson who exonerated Chatar Siṅgh, and also justified the defensive measures he had taken to save the besieged capital of Hazārā from Abbott's troops. Despite this, Currie virtually dismissed Chatar Singh and confiscated his jagirs. After this, and the failure of the Resident to honour the betrothal of his sister, Sher Singh, who had been fighting alongside the British, changed sides. In thesecond Anglo-Sikh War, Sher Singh fought against the British at the battle of Chillianwala, and was defeated later the same year at thebattle of Gujrat. Following the battle, Chatar Siṅgh and his sons, Rājā Sher Siṅgh and Avtār Singh, were imprisoned first at Allāhābād and then at Fort William at Calcutta. Chattar Siṅgh died in Calcutta on 27 December 1855.[2]
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