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The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. [4] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore , to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company following the Second Anglo-Sikh War .
Detail of a painting of the royal court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, by Bishan Singh, ca.1863–64.Court chroniclers can be viewed scribing down Khalsa Darbar records. The extant records covers the years 1811–1849 (Samvat 1868 to Chet 1906 B.S.), covering a period of 38 years, though the Pakistani government claims to possess records dating earlier to 1804.
Sher Singh was crowned Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in January 1841, with Dhian Singh Dogra as his prime minister. [7] [8] The army expanded rapidly in the aftermath of Ranjit Singh's death, from 29,000 (with 192 guns) in 1839 to over 80,000 in 1845 [9] as landlords and their retainers took up arms. It proclaimed itself to be the embodiment of ...
Zorawar Singh (1784–12 December 1841) was a military general of the Dogra Rajput ruler, Gulab Singh, who served as the Raja of Jammu under the Sikh Empire. [3] [4] He served as the governor (wazir-e-wazarat) of Kishtwar and extended the territories of the kingdom by conquering Ladakh and Baltistan. [5]
The Dogra–Tibetan war, [2] [3] also called Sino-Sikh war [4] was fought from May 1841 to August 1842, between the forces of the Dogra Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu, under the suzerainty of the Sikh Empire, and those of Tibet under the protectorate of the Qing dynasty. [3]
Sino-Sikh War, May 1841 to August 1842, General Zorawar Singh Kahluria of the Sikh Empire invaded Qing Tibet; First Anglo-Afghan War, 1837-1842 [2] Missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Wales found the Presbyterian Church in India in the Khasi Hills in northeast India [3]
Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal (1792–1857) was the first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and the founder of the Dogra dynasty.Originally a commander of the Sikh Empire, he sided with the British in the First Anglo-Sikh War and briefly became prime minister of the Sikh Empire in 1846. [3]
"The Rise of the Honorable Guru Panth/Sikh Community"), [1] is a historical text about Sikh history in the 1700s by Rattan Singh Bhangu and was completed in the early 1810s. [ note 1 ] [ 2 ] The text's opening foundation briefly covers the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus, then traces the accomplishments of the Sikh community from 1708 to the ...