Nau Nihal Singh was born on February 11, 1821 to Yuvraj Kharak Singh and his to begin with spouse, Chand Kaur. He was the grandson of Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Maharani Datar Kaur of the Nakai Misl, he develop up exceptionally near to his grandparents. His father was the beneficiary of his granddad- in this way making him moment in line of progression to the position of authority of Punjab. In April 1837 at the age of sixteen he was hitched to Bibi Nanaki Kaur Atariwala, girl Pretense Singh Attariwala (1790-1846) of the town of Attari in Amritsar area of Punjab. She was the as it were spouse to hold the title of Maharani, she passed on in 1856. His wedding was arranged by his grandma, Datar Kaur. The event was checked by a show of uncommon magnificence and luxuriousness. He was furthermore, hitched to Sahib Kaur Gilwaliwala, girl of Sardar Gurdit Singh Gilwaliwala, of Amritsar she passed on in 1841 after giving birth to their stillborn child, after death. His third marriage was to Bhadauran Kanwar Sahiba.
Nau Nihal was well known with the regal squires and the common open, and was seen as a commendable successor to his father amid the latter's affliction. After Kharak Singh passed on on 5 November 1840, Nau Nihal performed his final customs next to the Ravi Stream in Lahore. After the ceremony, he begun returning to the royal residence through the Hazuri Bagh, where a gigantic square of stone from a door fell upon him and two of his companions. One of the companions - Udham Singh (nephew of Dhian Singh)- broke his neck and kicked the bucket on the spot. According to Alexander Gardner, who was fair steps behind Nau Nihal when the occurrence took put, the ruler had maintained as it were minor wounds amid this scene: he was well sufficient to walk on his possess, and concurred to be taken on a stretcher as it were since of Gardner's insistence. In any case, when the court doctor Johann Martin Honigberger came to go to Nau Nihal in a tent, he watched that the prince's cranium had been pulverized, and the bedsheet was secured with blood an