FARIDKOT  , a native

state of India in the Punjab . It ranks as one of the Cis-Siitlej states, which came under British influence in 1809 . Its area is 642 sq. m., and its population in 1901 was 124,912 . It is bounded on the W. and N.E. by the British district of Ferozepore, and on the S. by Nabha state . During the Sikh wars in 1845 the chief, Raja Pahar Singh, exerted himself in the British cause, and was rewarded with an increase of territory . In the Mutiny of 1857, too, his son and successor, Wazir Singh, did good service by guarding the Sutlej ferries, and in attacking a notorious rebel, whose stronghold he destroyed . The estimated gross revenue is £28,300; there is no tribute . The territory is traversed by the Rewari-Ferozepore railway, and also crossed by the Fazilka line, which starts from Kotkapura, the old capital . It is irrigated by a branch of the Sirhind canal . The town of Faridkot has a railway station, 84 m. from Lahore .