Editing Ranjit Singh (section)

==== Issues of Ranjit Singh ====

* [[Kharak Singh]] (22 February 1801 – 5 November 1840) was the eldest and the favorite of Ranjit Singh from his second wife, Datar Kaur.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Khushwant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D068dKeyGW4C&q=favourite+wife |title=Ranjit Singh |date=2009 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-306543-2 |language=en}}</ref> He succeeded his father as the [[Maharaja]].
* [[Ishar Singh (Sikh prince)|Ishar Singh]] (1804-1805) son of his first wife, Mehtab Kaur. This prince died in infancy.
* [[Rattan Singh]] (1805–1845) was born to Maharani Datar Kaur.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Yudhvir Rana |date=1 May 2015 |title=Descendants of Maharaja Ranjit Singh stakes claim on Gobindgarh Fort |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/descendants-of-maharaja-ranjit-singh-stakes-claim-on-gobindgarh-fort/articleshow/47123514.cms |access-date=17 September 2021 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Yudhvir Rana |date=18 August 2021 |title=Seventh generation descendent of Maharaja Ranjit Singh writes to Imran |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/seventh-generation-descendent-of-maharaja-ranjit-singh-writes-to-imran/articleshow/85432426.cms |access-date=10 September 2021 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> He was granted the [[Jagatpur, Punjab|Jagatpur Bajaj]] estate as his jagir.
* Fateh Singh (1806-1811) was born to Maharani Datar Kaur.<ref name="Postscript: Maharaja Duleep Singh3">{{Citation |title=Emperor of the Five Rivers |date=2017 |section=Postscript: Maharaja Duleep Singh |publisher=I.B. Tauris |doi=10.5040/9781350986220.0008 |isbn=978-1-78673-095-4}}</ref>
* [[Sher Singh]] (4 December 1807 – 15 September 1843) was the elder of the twins of Mehtab Kaur. He briefly became the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
* [[Tara Singh (Sikh prince)|Tara Singh]] (4 December 1807 – 1859) younger of the twins born of Mehtab Kaur.
* [[Multana Singh]] (1819–1846) son of Ratan Kaur.
* [[Kashmira Singh]] (1821–1844) son of Daya Kaur.
* [[Pashaura Singh]] (1821–1845) younger son of Daya Kaur.
* [[Duleep Singh]] (4 September 1838 – 22 October 1893), the last ''[[Maharaja]]'' of the [[Sikh Empire]]. Ranji Singh's youngest son, the only child of Jind Kaur.

[[File:Maharaja_Ranjit_Singh_in_Darbar_with_sons_and_officials._Signed_by_Imam_Bakhsh.jpg|thumb|Maharaja Ranjit Singh in [[Durbar (court)|Darbar]] with sons and officials. Signed by Imam Bakhsh]]
According to the pedigree table and [[Duleep Singh]]'s diaries that he kept towards the end of his life another son Fateh Singh was born to Mai Nakain, who died in infancy.<ref name="Postscript: Maharaja Duleep Singh3"/> According to Henry Edward only Datar Kaur and Jind Kaur's sons are Ranjit Singh's biological sons.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fane |first1=Henry Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rZFAAAAIAAJ&q=colburn+%22five+years+in+india%22&pg=PR1 |title=Five Years in India, Volume 1, Chapter VII |publisher=Henry Colburn |year=1842 |page=120 |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Lady Login's Recollections |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co, London |year=1916 |page=85 |chapter=Chapter VII |access-date=4 August 2016 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/ladyloginsrecoll00logirich#page/n9/mode/2up}}</ref>

It is said that [[Ishar Singh (Sikh prince)|Ishar Singh]] was not the biological son of Mehtab Kaur and Ranjit Singh, but only procured by Mehtab Kaur and presented to Ranjit Singh who accepted him as his son.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Griffin |first=Lepel Henry |title=The Panjab chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab |date=1890 |publisher=Civil and Military Gazette Press |oclc=777874299}}</ref> [[Tara Singh (Sikh prince)|Tara Singh]] and [[Sher Singh]] had similar rumours, it is said that Sher Singh was the son of a chintz weaver, Nahala and Tara Singh was the son of Manki, a servant in the household of [[Sada Kaur]]. Henry Edward Fane, the nephew and aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, India, General Sir Henry Fane, who spent several days in Ranjit Singh's company, reported, "Though reported to be the Maharaja's son, Sher Singh's father has never thoroughly acknowledged him, though his mother always insisted on his being so. A brother of Sher, Tara Singh by the same mother, has been even worse treated than himself, not being permitted to appear at court, and no office given him, either of profit or honour." ''Five Years in India'', Volume 1, Henry Edward Fane, London, 1842{{full citation needed|date=June 2022}}{{page needed|date=June 2022}}

[[Multana Singh]], [[Kashmira Singh]] and [[Pashaura Singh]] were sons of the two widows of Sahib Singh, Daya Kaur and Ratan Kaur, whom Ranjit Singh took under his protection and married. These sons, are said to be, not biologically born to the queens and only procured and later presented to and accepted by Ranjit Singh as his sons.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Griffin |first=Lepel Henry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jc8NAAAAIAAJ&q=raj |title=Ranjit Síngh and the Sikh Barrier Between Our Growing Empire and Central Asia |date=1898 |publisher=Clarendon Press |language=en}}</ref>