Awankot

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Awankot (अवान कोट) is a village in district Rupnagar in Punjab.

History

The invasion of Amba Rao Maharatta:

Lepel H. Griffin writes:[1]The expedition of Dhara Rao to Pattiala had taught the Mahrattas that the country to the north of the Jamna was a good field for plunder, and, in the spring of 1788, another Chief, named Amba Rao, determined to try his fortunes in that direction. He persuaded Ghulam Kadir Khan, the son of Zabita Khan Rohilla, who had died three years before, to join him ; and, at Karnal, Sirdar Bhagel Singh Krora Singhia made his submission, for this Chief was generally the first to welcome an invader and follow him as a jackal the lion, to obtain a share of the prey, however insignificant. The Pattiala Diwan met the invaders at a village in the Kythal territory, where the Mahratta levied a contribution which Pattiala assisted to pay on the mortgage of seven villages which Bhai Lal subsequently released.

Amba Rao did not make much by his expedition. The Rohilla Chief, Ghulam Kadir, either quarrelled with him or was bribed by the Sikhs, and retired towards Dehli which he soon afterwards took by storm, disgracing himself by permitting every kind of atrocity and putting out the eyes of the Emperor Shah Alam with his own hand. After Ghulam Kadir's departure, Amba Rao could make little impression on the Sikh Chiefs who profuse in promises which they had no intention to fulfil ; and, much disappointed with the result of his expedition, he recrossed the Jamna. Diwan Nanun Mal again attacks the Singhpuria chief but without Success:

Diwan Nanun Mal was now induced by Sirdar Hari Singh of Sialbah to make an other attack upon Kiushhal Singh Singhpuria who had taken Awankot-


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and other villages of the Sialbah territory. Their joint forces first attacked Kotlah, a small fort held by Man Singh, son-in-law of the Singhpuria Chief, and reduced it without much difficulty. Thence they went to Awankot and invested the place, but Budh Singh, son of Sirdar Khushhal Singh, with Tara Singh Gheba, Rai Singh Bhangi,* and other Chiefs, came to the rescue and compelled the raising of the siege. Nanun Mal sent to Pattiala forreinforcements, and Ata-ullah Khan of Maler Kotla, Rai Muhamad of Rai Kot, with some Nabha and Kythal troops soon joined him, but the fighting, which was little more than skirmishing, was indecisive, and it was thought advisable to abandon any further attempt on Awankot.

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