Kapurthala princely state fiscal court fee/revenue stamp

KAPURTHALA 13 GUN SALUTE STATE

Kapurthala State, with its capital at Kapurthala, was a former Princely state of Punjab, Kapurthala state was formerly Punjab State Agency, merged into PEPSU, now in Punjab State , area of state was 599 Sq miles, Population of state was Rs. 316,757 in 1931. Privy purse of state on the time of accession on 20 August 1948 was Rs.270,000.

The ruling dynasty of Kapurthala originated in the Ahluwalia misl. The dynasty's records trace their ancestry to the Bhatti Rajputs of Jaisalmer, and ultimately, the Hindu deity Krishna. According to this account, Krishna's descendant Gaj built the fort of Gajni, and lost his life in a battle against a joint Roman-Khorasani army. His son Salibahan established the city of Sialkot, and started the Shak era after defeating the Shaks in 78 CE. After the Muslim conquest of Punjab, his descendants migrated to the Jaisalmer area, where they came to be known as Bhatti Rajputs. After Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Jaisalmer, some of the Bhattis migrated to Tarn Taran district, mingled with Jats. Gradually, they came to be known as Jats, and in the 17th century, they joined Guru Hargobind's army. Ganda Singh of this family raided Lahore, whose governor Dilawar Khan persuaded him to join the Lahore army, and assigned him the fief of Ahlu and some other villages. Ganda Singh's son Sadhu (or Sadho) Singh lived in Ahlu, because of which the family came to be known as Ahluwalia. Sadhu Singh and his four sons married into Kalal families, because of which the family came to be known as Ahluwalia Kalal. The descendants of Sadhu Singh's son Gopal Singh (who was the grandfather of Jassa Singh) established the royal family of Kapurthala.

The British administrator Lepel Griffin (1873) dismissed this account as spurious. The Sikh author Gian Singh, in his Twarikh Raj Khalsa (1894), wrote that the Ahluwalia family adopted the Kalal caste identity much before Sadhu Singh.The Ahluwalia misl rose to prominence under Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, who is regarded as the founder of the Kapurthala State.

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Type-7 - used in 1946 AD, size 100x46 mm. Perf. 11, Wove paper.