LOT-G340. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important antique c.1840 royal berat / firman, hand signed by Raja Pahar Singh. Royal Islamic Indian Document is on official Faridkot State Punjab British India letterhead. Royal presentation document measures approximately 8.25" x 13.25". Royal Faridkot State document is embellished with gold leaf ink. British India document is original.  Condition is fine. Untranslated. Museum quality. One of a kind.  Guaranteed authentic.

Pahar Singh was the Raja of the Princely state of Faridkot. Pahar Singh succeeded his nephew, Atar Singh, in 1827 to the throne of Faridkot. His reign lasted 22 years and was marked by peace and prosperity. He found many villages and dug wells in Faridkot. He helped the British East India Company in First Anglo-Sikh War against Sikh Empire. Due to this, he was awarded the title of Raja and granted half of the land which was seized from the Raja Of Nabha by the British Government. He died in April 1849 and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Wazir Singh.

Faridkot State was a self-governing princely state of Punjab outside British India during the British Raj period in the Indian sub-continent until Indian independence.

Faridkot was one of the Cis-Sutlej states, which came under British influence in 1809. It was bounded on the west and northeast by the British district of Ferozepore, and on the south by Nabha State. During the First Anglo-Sikh War in 1845 the chief, Raja Pahar Singh, was allied with the British, and was rewarded with an increase of territory. In the Indian Rebellion of 1857, too, his son and successor, Wazir Singh, guarded the Sutlej ferries, and destroyed a rebel stronghold.