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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 depiction of a Misl-era Sikh cavalry warrior from a map of the Lahore Subah commissioned by Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil, ca.1770. Fauja Singh considers the Sikh misls to be guerrilla armies, although he notes that the Sikh misls generally had greater numbers and a larger number of artillery pieces than a guerrilla army would. [36]
[23] [24] [3] In 1801, Ranjit Singh formally established the Kingdom of Lahore. [3] In 1809, the remaining Sikh monarchies of the cis-Sutlej region came under British protection and some of the survived until 1947 in the form of a princely-state. [3] Ranjit Singh's polity led to the state patronage of the Sanatan Sikhs, whom he favoured. [25]
The Kingdom of Lahore shows the largest extent, but the borders do not match with this map. The other maps are substantially different; E.g. none of these show Aksai Chin as part of the Sikh territory: Map 3: Sikh mints in the Punjab during the reign of Ranjit Singh (1801-39) John Walker's map; Der Sikh - Staat
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Misl or Sikh confederacy literal meaning (“fighting clan or fighting band”) which ruled over Punjab region after decline of Mughal Empire, however most of them were founded by Jats. [citation needed] Phulkian Confederacy [22] (Sidhu Jats) Kanhaiya Confederacy [23] (Sandhu Jats) Nakai Confederacy [24] (Sandhu Jats) Shaheedan Confederacy [25 ...
Ranjit Singh consolidated the Sikh misldaars (commanders) who had ruled more or less independently during the eighteenth century under a unified command, and in 1799, he established Lahore as the administrative capital of a new Sikh kingdom. Nearby Amritsar became the spiritual and commercial center of the kingdom in 1802, after Ranjit Singh's ...
Map of Punjab, where Sikhism originated, against present-day borders. Sikhism originated around the 15th century. [173] Guru Nanak (1469–1539), the founder of Sikhism, was born in the village of Rāi Bhōi dī Talwandī, now called Nankana Sahib (in present-day Pakistan). [174] His parents were Punjabi Khatri Hindus.