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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mahan Singh Hazarawala
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| office = Governor of [[Hazara region|Hazara]]
| 1blankname = Monarch
| 1namedata = [[Ranjit Singh]]
| term_start = 1837
| term_end = 1838
| predecessor = [[Hari Singh Nalwa]]
| successor = [[Tej Singh]]
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| death_date = 1844
| death_place = Hazara, Sikh Empire
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| parents = Data Ram Bali (Father)
| signature = Persian seal of Mahan Singh Mirpuri.jpg
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'''Mahan Singh Hazarawala''' (died 1844) was a military officer in the [[Khalsa Army]] of [[Sikh Empire]], serving under [[Hari Singh Nalwa]].<ref name=saggar>{{Cite book |last=Saggar |first=Balraj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BduAAAAMAAJ&q=He+was+also+called+Mahan+Singh+Hazarawala+.+He+was+son+of+Data |title=Who's who in the History of Punjab, 1800–1849 |date=1993 |publisher=National Book Organisation |isbn=978-81-85135-60-1 |pages=240 |language=en}}</ref> The city of [[Mansehra]] in Pakistan is believed to be named after him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=District Profile - Mansehra|url=https://www.humanitarianlibrary.org/sites/default/files/2013/05/MansehraProfile200907.pdf |access-date= |website=Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority|via=Humanitarian Library|publisher=Kamran Printers, Blue Area, Islamabad|date=July 2007}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Mahan Singh was born into a [[Punjabi Hindu]] family from the [[Bali clan|Bali]] clan of [[Mohyal Brahmin]]s. He was the son of Data Ram Bali, a trusted servant of [[Muqarrab Khan Gakhar|Sultan Muqarrab Khan]], the Muslim [[Gakhars|Gakhar]] chief of the [[Pothohar]] region.<ref name=saggar/><ref>{{cite book |last=Griffin|first= Lepel. H |title=The Punjab Chiefs|volume= II |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206739/page/n283/mode/1up |publisher=Civil And Military Gazette Press Lahore |pages=265–266 |year=1890 |access-date=}}</ref>

== Military career ==
While in [[Lahore]] in search of a job, he happened to participate in a hunting expedition of [[Ranjit Singh|Maharaja Ranjit Singh]], in which he caught the notice of the Maharaja by single-handedly killing a leopard with his sword.<ref name=eos>{{cite encyclopedia |first=S. S. |last=Bhatia |editor1-last=Singh |editor1-first=Harbans |editor1-link=Harbans Singh |title=Mahan Singh (d. 1844) |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia Of Sikhism | volume=III M–R |edition=Third |pages=13–14 |publisher=Punjabi University Patiala |url=https://archive.org/details/TheEncyclopediaOfSikhism-VolumeIiiM-r/page/13/mode/1up |date=2011 |isbn=978-8-1-7380-349-9 |language=English}}</ref> Impressed by his valor, the Maharaja had him inducted into the army under Hari Singh Nalwa.<ref name=eos/>

Mahan Singh served in the battles of [[Battle of Peshawar (1834)|Peshawar]] and [[Battle of Shopian|Kashmir]], and in the 1818 [[siege of Multan (1818)|siege of Multan]], where he was wounded twice.<ref name=eos/> In April 1837, he was the main defender of the [[Jamrud Fort]], holding out against an invasion by the [[Afghans]] during the [[Battle of Jamrud]]. Nalwa was killed in that battle but Mahan Singh kept the news secret until reinforcements arrived from Lahore.<ref name=eos/>

== Death ==
Mahan Singh succeeded Hari Singh as the [[Divan|Diwan]] of [[Hazara region|Hazara]], where he was killed in 1844 by his own soldiers when a mutiny broke out.<ref name=eos/>

==See also==
* [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Generals]]
* [[Mansehra]]

==References==
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