PREM SIṄGH (d. 1824), son of Pañjāb Siṅgh, a Randhāvā Jaṭṭ belonging to the village of Khuṇḍā in Gurdāspur district, was a soldier in Mahārājā Raṇjīt Siṅgh's army. He took part in several of the Mahārājā's campaigns of conquest including those of Multān (1818) and Kashmīr (1819). He was drowned in the Indus on 2 November 1824 while attempting to ford the river with the Mahārājā's army in pursuit of the tribal rebels of Gaṇḍhgaṛh who had attacked Harī Siṅgh Nalvā.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Griffin, Lepel and C.F.Massy, Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab . Lahore, 1910

G. S. Nayyar