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'''[[Sardar|Sardar Bahadur]] Arjan Singh Chahal''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1839–1908) was a Sikh [[Chahal Jats|Chahal Jat]] of Chahal village in [[Amritsar]] in what is now the Indian state of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]. He was only seven when his father Sardar Javala Singh, died in 1846.<ref name="Sikh Encyclopedia.com - Arjan Singh Chahal">{{cite web|url=http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/sikh-political-figures/arjan-singh-chahal|title=Arjan Singh Chahal|publisher=The Sikh Encyclopedia.com|accessdate=27 December 2011}}</ref><br />
He held large [[Jagir]]s in [[Tarn Taran Sahib]] [[tehsil]], and in the [[Lyallpur District]] in the present day [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab Province]] of Pakistan.<ref name="Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India p 87">{{cite book|last=Nijjar|first=B. S.|title=Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India|publisher=Atlantic Publishers and Distributors|date=10 December 2007|pages=400|isbn=978-81-269-0908-7}}</ref><br />
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From 1890 to 1896 Arjan Singh was manager of the [[Harmandir Sahib|Golden Temple]], Amritsar He was appointed president of the 11-member lighting committee set up in 1896 to arrange the installation of electricity in the Golden Temple.<ref name="Sikh Encyclopedia.com - Arjan Singh Chahal"/><br />
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He received the title of ''Sardar Bahadur'' in 1894,<ref name="Sikh Encyclopedia.com - Arjan Singh Chahal"/> and was made a [[Companion of the Indian Empire]] in 1906.<ref name="Origins and History of Jats and Other Allied Nomadic Tribes of India p 87"/> Arjan Singh died at the age of 69 in January 1908.<ref name="Sikh Encyclopedia.com - Arjan Singh Chahal"/><br />
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