Khan Sahib General Ghulam Bhikh Khan
(1867 - 1935)

Late Sessions judge of the State; educated privately and in the Sunam School; Squadron Officer of the Local Cavalry, 1887; Commandant, Local Infantry, 1892; General Commanding the Local Troops, 1906; Judge, 1918; Khan Sahib, 1920; Held State Jagir, land and property in British India, Patiala, and Jind (Punjab States Agency, List of Ruling Princes, Notables, and Principal Officials, Calcutta, 1924).

General Ghulam Bhikh Khan, Commanding Jind State Local Troops, is Mohammedan Brah Rajput by Caste and son of Hakim Faiz Mohammad Khan, the late Adalti (session judge) of the State.

Bhikh Khan entered the State Service as Squadron Officer of the Local Cavalry on the 3rd January 1887; was transferred to be a Darbari on the 5th November, 1889; was appointed Commandant of the Local Infantry on the 27th April, 1892; and was promoted to be the General Commanding of the Local Troops on the 6th November, 1906.

His father, Hakim Faiz Mohammad Khan and grandfather, Hakim Karam Bakhsh Khan, had been Session Judge and Royal Physician of this State. His uncle, Hakim Niyaz Mohammad Khan, was Commander-in-Chief of this State, while his other grandfathers, Munshi Abdul Nabi Khan and Munshi Fateh Mohammad Khan, were Foreign Ministers in Patiala State. His other uncles, Sardar Noor Khan and Sardar Budroodin Khan, were Commanders-in-Chief of the Nabha State, and his real cousins, Sardar Sher Mohammed Khan and Khan Bahadur Sardar Bakhshi Wali Mohammad Khan, also filled the same post.