The story of the incarceration of Maharani Jind Kaur ‘(popularly known as Mai Jindan) , the mother of Maharaja Duleep Singh, in the fort of Lahore, her removal from there to the fort of Sheikhupura as a State prisoner and her ultimate banishment from the Panjab is very tragic. But it has become all the more tragic and painful by the discovery of three letters, which from the subject of this paper. These Three 3 letters words were purchased by me in October 1940 from Pt. Kirpa Ram, a grandson of the late Rai Sahib Pandit Wazir Chand Trikha of Jhang, for the khalsa college Armritsar, and are now preserved there in the collection of the Sikh history search department. Jind Kaur wished. to save the Punjab from the clutches of I he British Government In the words of Henry Lawren " in the Government, December 17, 1846-—a day after the treat of Bharowal.