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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Sham Singh Attariwala<br />
| image = Sham Singh Attariwala.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|1790}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Attari]], [[Bhangi Misl]], [[Sikh Confederacy]] <br> {{small|(present-day [[Amritsar district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]])}}<br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1846|1790}}<br />
| death_place = [[Sobraon]], [[Sikh Empire]] <br> {{small|(present-day [[Tarn Taran district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]])}}<br />
| allegiance = [[File:Sikh Empire flag.jpg|30px]] [[Sikh Empire]]<br />
| branch = [[Sikh Khalsa Army]]<br />
| serviceyears = 1817–1846<br />
| rank = [[General|Jarnail]] of the [[Sikh Khalsa Army|Sikh Khalsa Fauj]]<br />
| spouse = Mai Dasa Kanwar<br />
| children = [[Nanaki Kaur Attariwala]]<br />
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'''Sham Singh Attariwala''' (1790 – 10 February 1846) was a general of the [[Sikh Empire]]. He was born in the 1790s in the town of Attari (a few kilometres from the border of Indian and Pakistan Punjab in India), [[Amritsar]], in the [[Majha]] region of Panjab, India. As a child he was educated in Gurmukhi and Persian. When Ranjit singh became the Maharaja of Punjab, he got Attariwala's services at his disposal. Maharaja [[Ranjit Singh]] knowing his qualities and fighting abilities made him a 'Jathedar' of 5000 horsemen. He participated actively in many campaigns, notably like the campaign of Multan, campaign of Kashmir, campaign of the Frontier Province etc.<br />
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Sham Singh Attariwala is also famous for his last stand at the [[Battle of Sobraon]]. He joined the Sikh military in 1817 and during the [[Afghan–Sikh Wars]] participated in the [[Battle of Attock]], [[Battle of Multan]], [[Battle of Peshawar (1834)|Battle of Peshawar]], and the [[1819 Kashmir expedition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/sikh-political-figures/sham-singh-atarlvala|title=The Sikh Encyclopedia(ਸਿੱਖ ਵਿਸ਼ਵਕੋਸ਼) – Sham Singh Attarivala|access-date=4 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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His daughter [[Nanaki Kaur Attariwala]], later Kunwarani Nanaki Kaur, was married to [[Prince Nau Nihal Singh]] and upon his accession to the [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh's throne|throne]] became the Maharani of the Sikh Empire.<br />
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He served on the [[council of regency]] for [[Duleep Singh|Maharajah Dalip Singh]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7uHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|editor1=Jan Bremmer|editor2=Lourens Van Den Bosch|title=Between Poverty and the Pyre: Moments in the History of Widowhood|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1995|page=179|isbn=0-415-08370-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ranjit Singh's Khalsa Raj and Attariwala Sardars |isbn = 9788171161652|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFFuAAAAMAAJ|last1 = Sidhu|first1 = Kuldip Singh|year = 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G421AAAAIAAJ&q=sham+singh+attari+wife|author=Vishwanath Datta|author-link=Vishwanath Datta|title=Sati: a historical, social and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning|year=1988|pages=279|isbn=9780913215319}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2ulKHNUktYC&pg=PA67|author=Lepel Henry Griffin|author-link=Lepel Griffin|title=Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier Between Our Growing Empire and Central Asia|year=1905|page=67|isbn=9788120619180}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book|author1=Ahluwalia, M.L.|author2=Singh, Kirpal|title=Punjab Pioneer Freedom Fighters|year=1963|publisher=Orient Longmans|location=New Delhi}}<br />
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