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Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, in the northwest Indian subcontinent, ruling from 1801 until ...
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.
Sadho Singh Ahluwalia [18] Kapurthala: Jassa Singh: 3,000 10,000 Jalandhar district, Kapurthala district, Kana Dhillon, Nurmahal, Talwandi, Phagwara. Raja Fateh Singh would be allied with the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and later became the princely state of Kapurthala after the second Anglo-Sikh war [19] Bhangi (ਭੰਗੀ Bhangī)
[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 .
Nearby Amritsar became the spiritual and commercial center of the kingdom in 1802, after Ranjit Singh's troops occupied the city and the maharaja announced his intention to extend patronage and protection to the city's leading groups. The Samadhi of Emperor Ranjit Singh in Lahore, Pakistan. Photographed by Francis Frith, circa 1850's–1870's
A map showing the division of Ratlam ... Maharaja Ratan Singh thus founded the kingdom of Dharad in 1652 (predecessor to the State of Ratlam). ... Ranjit Singh: 27 ...
The Monarchs of Punjab were the rulers of various kingdoms and republics of the Punjab beginning with the Vedic period and ending after the British empire.Much of native Punjab during the ancient period was ruled by various Tribal republics, such as the Yaudheyas, Madra, Trigarta, Audumbara, Oxydrakoi, Malloi and Gandhara with their leaders and monarchs being largely unknown.
Kapurthala State, was a kingdom and later Princely state of the Punjab Province of India. Ruled by Ahluwalia Sikh rulers, spread across 510 square miles (1,300 km 2 ). According to the 1901 census the state had a population of 314,341 and contained two towns and 167 villages. [ 1 ]