The two armies were engaged for a couple of days, eventually seventeen year old Hari Singh carried the day. This was his first battle under an independent command. Ranjit Singh nominated Hari Singh Nalwa to take Sialkot from its ruler Jiwan Singh. The Sardar was granted a Jagir in recognition of his services.
During the campaign the Sardar showed remarkable bravery and dexterity. This attack was led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Jodh Singh Ramgarhia.
This place had long been a thorn in the side of Ranjit Singh's power because of its proximity to his capital city of Lahore. Hari Singh's first significant participation in a Sikh conquest on assuming charge of an independent contingent was in 1807, at the capture of Kasur. The twenty major battles of Hari Singh Nalwa (either participated or was in command): Whether he was by that time already serving in the military is unknown but he was commissioned as Sardar, commanding 800 horses and footmen, in that year. His fellow hunters attempted to protect him but he refused their offers and allegedly killed the tiger by himself bare handedly by tearing the tiger apart from its mouth, thus earning the cognomen Baghmar ( Tiger-killer). Dated 1837ĭuring a hunt in 1804, a tiger attacked him and also killed his horse. Military career Ĭoin issued by Hari Singh, minted in Peshawar. Ranjit Singh gave him a position at the court as a personal attendant. Hari Singh had explained that his father and grandfather had served under Maha Singh and Charat Singh, the Maharaja's ancestors, and demonstrated his skills as a horseman and musketeer. Ranjit Singh decided the arbitration in his favor because of his background and aptitude. In 1804, at the age of fourteen, his mother sent him to the court of Ranjit Singh to resolve a property dispute. At the age of twelve, he began to manage his father's estate and took up horse riding. In 1801, at the age of ten, he took Amrit Sanchar and was initiated as a Sikh. After his father died in 1798, he was raised by his mother. Hari Singh Nalwa was born in Gujranwala, in the Majha region of Punjab to Dharam Kaur and Gurdial Singh Uppal, in a Sikh Khatri family.
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