Bibi Sahib Kaur

Rajkumari Bibi Sahib Kaur (1771–1801) was a Sikh princess of Patiala and the elder sister of Sahib Singh, the Raja-e-Rajgan of Patiala. Sahib Kaur served as Patiala's Prime Minister and the General of the Patiala Army. She is remembered for her leadership in protecting the Patiala kingdom from Marathas in the late-18th century, alongside Rani Rajinder Kaur.

Biography Sahib Kaur was born in 1771. At the age of 7, she was married to Jaimal Singh of Fateh Garh Churian (Gurdaspur district), son of Haqiqat Singh of the Kanhaiya Misl. She was one of the leaders in the Maratha-Sikh clashes against the Maratha Empire. Thomas later attacked Jind, and the then Raja of Jind, Bhag Singh, sent a letter to request aid from Sahib Singh or for Sahib Singh to send his sister, Kaur, to aid him. Other sources give her date of death as 1799. Kaur's stepdaughter, through her husband Jaimal Singh's other marriage, was Chand Kaur, who served as the Regent of the Sikh Empire and was the wife of Maharaja Kharak Singh and the mother of Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh. Kharak Singh was the son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire.