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The Sikhs laid siege to the city. After a week, the Governor agreed to pay 30,000 rupees to the Sikhs. Ahmed Shah Abdali returned from Delhi in March 1761 after defeating Marathas in Third Battle of Panipat with much gold and more than 22,000 girls as prisoners who were to be sold to the Afghans in Kabul. When Abdali was crossing the river Beas ...
The Afsharid Persian emperor Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire (1738–40) dealt a heavy blow to the Mughals, but after Nader Shah's death in 1747, Ahmed Shah Abdali, the founder of the Durrani Empire declared independence from Persia. Four years later, this new Afghan state came into conflict with the Sikh alliance.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. Sikh-Afghan battle Battle of Pipli Sahib Part of Afghan–Sikh Wars and Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani Date 17 October 1762 Location Amritsar Result Disputed Belligerents Dal Khalsa Durrani Empire Commanders and leaders Jassa Singh Ahluwalia Charat Singh Other Notable Leaders ...
Ahmad Shah Durrani (also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali), the founder of the Durrani Empire, invaded Indian subcontinent a total of eight times between 1748 and 1767, following the collapse of Mughal Empire in the mid-18th century. His objectives were met through the raids (taking the wealth and destroying sacred places belonging to the Indians ...
[1] [2] This greatly weakened Durrani rule over Punjab which forced Ahmad Shah Abdali to launch a 7th invasion into India. [3] Ahmad Shah Abdali and his army reached Eminabad where his Baloch ally Mir Nasir Khan I joined him. The Afghans had a force of 18,000 and the Baloch had a force of 12,000, having a total force of 30,000. [2]
[4] [5] When Ahmad Shah reached Lahore, he sent a military detachment to sack the town of Amritsar, which destroyed the Harmandir Sahib and massacred the Sikh population. [6] [5] In May 1757, Ahmad Shah appointed Timur Shah as Governor of Lahore, with Jahan Khan as his deputy, and ordered Timur Shah to chastise the Sikhs.
After Ahmad Shah's final invasion of the Punjab in 1767, he left Lahore which was re-captured by the Sikhs. For more than three decades, Sikhs consolidated their power in areas of the Punjab, though facing repeated invasion attempts from other Afghan emperors such as Timur Shah Durrani , and Zaman Shah Durrani .
The Sikhs lay wreck on the Lahore region and Jalandhar Doab during July and August of the same year (1762), Ahmad Shah Abdali was powerless to stop them. [8] The Sikh warriors did not forget the local residents of the villages of Kup, Rahira, Kutba, and Bahmania turning away and even slaughtering pleading Sikhs seeking shelter with them. [36]