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'''General Raja Chattar Singh Attariwalla''', also spelt '''Chatar Singh Aṭārīvālā''', was [[Governor]] of [[Hazara, Pakistan|Hazara]] province and a [[military commander]] in the army of the [[Sikh Empire]] during the reign of [[Maharaja Duleep Singh]] in the [[Punjab region|Punjab]].<br />
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He fought in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]] against the British.<br />
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Raja Chattar Siṅgh died in Calcutta on 27 December 1855.<ref name=eos>{{cite web |url=http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/index.aspx |title=CHATAR SIṄGH AṬĀRĪVĀLĀ |last=Gaṇḍā Siṅgh |first= |author= |work=Encyclopaedia of Sikhism |publisher=Punjabi University Patiala |accessdate=19 August 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
Chatar Singh was the son of Jodh Siṅgh Aṭārīvālā. He had two sons, Raja [[Sher Singh Attariwalla]] and Avtār Singh. Sher Singh dealt a devastating blow on the army of the [[British East India Company]] at the [[Battle of Chillianwala]].<ref name=malleson>George Bruce Malleson, ''Decisive Battles of India''.</ref> His daughter Tej Kaur was betrothed to Duleep Singh, but after the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] the British Resident, [[Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet|Sir Frederick Currie]] did not honour the betrothal.<br />
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==Career==<br />
On the death of his father in August 1815, Chatar Singh inherited large [[jagir]]s and occupied himself with farming his estates. He rose into political prominence in 1843, after the assassination of Maharaja [[Sher 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 of [[Raja]], but he asked that instead the title be conferred on his son, Sher Singh.<br />
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In 1848 he was appointed as Governor of the Hazara province. There he came into conflict with Captain [[James Abbott (Indian Army officer)|James 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, 1st Baronet| Sir Frederick Currie]] commissioned an investigation by Captain [[John Nicholson (East India Company officer)|John Nicholson]] who exonerated Chatar Siṅgh, and also justified the defensive measures he had taken to save the besieged capital of Hazārā from Abbott's Muhammadan mercenaries. 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 the [[second Anglo-Sikh War]], Sher Singh inflicted a serious blow on the British at the Battle of Chillianwala, but was defeated at the subsequent [[Battle of Gujrat]]. Following the battle, Chatar Siṅgh and his sons, Rājā Sher Siṅgh and Avtār Singh, were imprisoned at first at Allāhābād and then at Fort William at Calcutta.<br />
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==See also==<br />
[[Punjab Army]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071007165716/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/chillianwala1849.html Battle of Chillianwalah - second Anglo-Sikh war].<br />
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