The State is well served by railways, Nabha itself being on the Rajpura-Bhatinda line. The Maharaja maintains a battalion of infantry for imperial service. Hamir Singh, one of the chiefs who joined in the capture of Sirhind, may be considered the first Raja. He died in 1783 and was succeeded by his young son, Jaswant Singh. When he grew to manhood Jaswant Singh proved a very capable chief and succeeded in aggrandising his State, which he ruled for 57 years. His son, Deoindar Singh (1840--47), was deposed, as he was considered to have failed to support the British Government when the Khalsa army crossed the Sutlej in 1845. A fourth of the Nabha territory was confiscated. Bharpur Singh, who became chief in 1857, did excellent service at that critical time, and the Bawal _nizamat_ was his reward. He was succeeded by his brother, Bhagwan Singh, in 1863. With Bhagwan Singh the line died out in 1871, but under the provisions of the _sanad_ granted after the Mutiny a successor was selected from among the Badrukhan chiefs in the person of the late Maharaja Sir Hira Singh. No choice could have been more happy. Hira Singh for 40 years ruled his State on old fashioned lines with much success. Those who had the privilege of his friendship will not soon forget the alert figure wasted latterly by disease, the gallant bearing, or the obstinate will of a Sikh chieftain of a type now departed. His son, Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, succeeded in 1911. [Illustration: Fig. 118. Maharaja Sir Hira Singh.] 2. _Other Sikh States_ [Sidenote: Area, 630 sq. m. Cultd area, 424 sq. m. Pop. 268,163. Rev. Rs. 14,00,000 = L93,333, exclusive of Rs. 13,00,000 = L86,666 derived from the Oudh estates.] ~Kapurthala.~--The main part consists of a strip of territory mostly in the valley of the Bias, and interposed between that river and Jalandhar. This is divided into the four _tahsils_ of Bholath, Dhilwan, Kapurthala, and Sultanpur. There is a small island of territory in Hoshyarpur, and a much larger one, the Phagwara _tahsil_, projecting southwards from the border of that district into Jalandhar. Two-thirds of the area is cultivated and the proportion of high-class crops is large. The chief agricultural tribes are the Muhammadan Arains and the Jats, most of whom are Sikhs.