DHARAM SIṄGH, a cousin of the celebrated Tārā Siṅgh Ghaibā of the Ḍallevālīā Misl, participated in the campaigns of the Khālsā, fighting against Mughals and Afghāns in the second half of the eighteenth century. He figured in the conquest of Sirhind and partition of the territory by Sikhs in January 1764 when he occupied a cluster of villages and founded amid them his own Dharamsiṅghvālā.