Person · r. 1620 – 1638
Gaj Singh
Gaj Singh succeeded his father Sur Singh in 1620, was invested by imperial proxy at Burhanpur, and was slain on a Gujarat expedition in 1638.
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- vol. II (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 972 · read as page image
Rāja Gaj Singh, a.d. 1620-38.—Raja Gaj, who succeeded his father in a.d. 1620, was born at Lahore, and the tika of investiture found him in the royal camp at Burhanpur. The bearer of it was Darab Khan, the son of the Khankhanan, or premier noble of the emperor's court, who, as the imperial proxy, girt Raja Gaj with the sword.
- vol. II (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 975 · read as page image
Death of Rāja Gaj Singh, a.d. 1638.—In S. 1694 (a.d. 1638), Raja Gaj was slain in an expedition into Gujarat; but whether in the fulfilment of the king's commands, or in the chastisement of freebooters on his own southern frontier, the chronicles do not inform us.