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The Father Of Maharaja: RANJIT SINGH or RUNJIT SINGH,run'jit siN'ha, Indian maharaja, founder of the Sikh kingdom in the Punjab: b. Gujranwala, Punjab, Nov. 13, 1780; d. Lahore, June 27, 1839. His father, Maha Singh, was chief of the Suker-chakia clan, whose headquarters was at Gujranwala, and his mother was a princess of Jind. An attack of smallpox deprived him of his left eye. His father died when he was 12, and he then came under the tutelage of a widow, named Sada Kaur, who was the head of the Kanhaya clan, and to whose daughter he was affianced.
Gujranwala is of relatively recent origin, having come into prominence with the rise of Sikh power in the Punjab in the 18th and 19th centuries. The only site of historical significance is the mausoleum of Mahan Singh, the father of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), both of whom were bom in the city. Gujranwala played a prominent role in the politics of the British Punjab. Population: (1961) 196,154.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father.
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