Generation VIII
Şehzade Bibiji … Sahiba
Şehzade ਬੀਬੀ ਜੀ … ਸਾਹਿਬਾ
Daughter of Nawab Bhag Singh of Kapurthala
The Kapurthala princess through whom this family carries its royal blood. She married General Sardar Rattan Singh of Behra — head of a jagir of forty-three villages seated at Fatehabad, the old Ahluwalia capital on the Beas, where Jassa Singh had built his fort and where Fateh Singh and Ranjit Singh had sworn their alliance ten years before. Griffin’s chart of 1870 marks the match in five words: “Daughter m. Rattan Singh Behra.” Every generation of the Behra line after her descends from Nawab Bhag Singh, and before him from the whole stem back to Sadho Singh of Ahlu.
- Father
- Nawab Bhag Singh
- Married
- General Sardar Rattan Singh
- Children
- Rais Sardar Thakur Singh
Unrecorded
Her personal name is preserved neither in the published compilations nor in the family records. Recovering it would be the single most valuable addition to this genealogy.
Conflict
The Tribune feature of 13 July 2006 in one place calls the lady Bhag Singh’s blood sister, where Griffin’s chart says daughter.
Tradition
The family papers do not preserve the date of the marriage. The published compilation places it in 1812, the year their son Thakur Singh was born.