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After the death of Kharak Singh and Nau Nihal Singh, Chand Kaur claimed the throne as the second wife of Nau Nihal Singh, Rani Sahib Kaur, was pregnant.On 2 December 1840 Chand Kaur was proclaimed Maharani of the Punjab, with the title Malika Muqaddasa (Empress Immaculate) and became the only female ruler the Sikh Empire.
After the accession of Kharak Singh as the Maharaja, Kunwar Nau Nihal Singh became the Yuvraj (crown prince). The effect of Chet Singh Bajwa, who was a relative of Inder Kaur Bajwa, the fourth wife of Maharaja Kharak Singh, on the newly crowned king started to affect his relationship with the Lahore Darbar as well as his own son.
His second wife, Sahib Kaur was pregnant at the time of his death and posthumously gave birth to their son, Jawahar Singh who was a stillborn. It is alleged that she was poisoned with the motive of terminating her pregnancy. Sohan Lal Suri claimed that Sher Singh gave the wives of Nau Nihal Singh medicines to terminate their pregnancies. [19] [20]
Ranjit Singh wanted the finest for his wife, hence the Royal Garden was chosen and the ashes of Mai Nakain were placed. [59] [60] It is also the resting place of her daughter-in-law, Maharani Chand Kaur and grand daughter-in-law, Sahib Kaur wife of Nau Nihal Singh. Today the site has become part of Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore grounds.
In 1816, Ranjit Singh officially announced Kharak Singh as his heir apparent and anointed him "Tikka Kanwar" (Crown prince) making Chand Kaur the "Tikka Rani Sahiba" (Crown Princess). [3] Their son, Nau Nihal Singh, was born on 23 February 1821 and in March 1837 he married Bibi Nanaki Kaur Sahiba, daughter of Sham Singh Atariwala.
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Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh, ... today; Guru Har Rai was the seventh of the ten Sikh Gurus. He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his ...
Sikhs have a given name and one or both of a surname and a Khalsa name. The surname may be a family name (based on the name of the ancestral village) or a caste name. Different castes still exist today in some aspects of Punjabi culture; similarly to the Hindu caste system, this system is based on employment [citation needed] (ex. jatt signifies the farming caste).