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{{Infobox person
| father = Khushal Singh Sandhu
| birth_date = 1712
| birth_place = Kahna, [[Punjab region|Punjab]], [[Mughal Empire]] (Present day: Kahna, [[Lahore District]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]])
| spouse =Desan Kaur
| children=[[Gurbaksh Singh Kanhaiya|Gurbaksh Singh]]
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1793|1712}}<ref name="Batia">{{cite web|last1=Bhatia|first1=Sardar Singh|title=JAI SINGH (1712-1793)|url=http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/index.aspx|website=Encyclopaedia of Sikhism|publisher=Punjabi University, Patiala|accessdate=2 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729230458/http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/index.aspx|archive-date=29 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}
'''Jai Singh Kanhaiya''' (1712–1793) was the founder and leader of the [[Kanhaiya Misl]] until his death. His daughter-in-law, [[Sada Kaur]] succeeded him in the leadership of the ''[[misl]]''.

==Early life==
Jai Singh was born in the village of Kahna, 21 km southwest of [[Lahore]].<ref name="Batia"/> His father, Khushal Singh, was a farmer and also sold wood and hay in Lahore and his family had humble origins. He was initiated into the [[Khalsa]] by [[Nawab Kapur Singh]] and joined the [[jatha]] of Amar Singh Kingra.<ref name="Batia"/> In 1759, his wife Desan Kaur (who was the widow of Jhanda Singh) gave birth to his only son and heir [[Gurbaksh Singh Kanhaiya|Gurbaksh Singh]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Griffin|first1=Lepel Henry|title=The Panjab chiefs, historical and biographical notices|date=1865|publisher=T.C. McCarthy - Chronicle Press|location=Lahore|page=316|language=en}}</ref>

==Misldar==
Jai Singh took control of a part of Riarki comprising the district of [[Gurdaspur district|Gurdaspur]] and upper portions of [[Amritsar district|Amritsar]]. His headquarters shifted from his wife's village at [[Sohian]], 15 km from Amritsar to [[Batala]] to [[Mukerian]].<ref name="Batia"/> He had territories on both sides of the rivers [[Beas river|Beas]] and [[Ravi river|Ravi]]. Qazi Nur Muhammad, a historian, wrote in 1765 that Jai Singh Kanheya had extended his territory up to Parol, which was 70 km southeast of [[Jammu]] and that he was allied with [[Jassa Singh Ramgarhia]] because they shared the territory of [[Batala]].<ref name="Batia"/> The hill chiefs of Nurpur, Datarpur and Siba became his tributaries. In 1774, Jai Singh and Haqiqat Singh built a [[bazaar]] in Amritsar called the ''Katra Kanheyan''. In October 1778 he collaborated with [[Mahan Singh Sukerchakia]] and [[Jassa Singh Ahluwalia]] to defeat [[Jassa Singh Ramgarhia]] and exiled him to the desert regions of [[Hansi]] and [[Hisar (district)|Hissar]].<ref name="Batia"/> In 1781, he led an expedition into Jammu with Haqiqat Singh and received a tribute from Brij Raj Dev, the ruler of Jammu.<ref name="Batia"/>

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