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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, officially known as Sarkār-i-Khālsa and Khālasa Rāj, [citation needed] was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. [7] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company in the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
Statue of Maharaja Suraj Mal founder of the Bharatpur State Portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh founder of the Sikh Empire List Following is the list of those ruling Jat dynasties which are primarily located on the Indian Subcontinent:
Approximate political map of Punjab from 1764 to 1803 by Joseph Davey Cunningham. The area under Sikh-rule is coloured blue. ... Ranjit Singh: Gujranwala (1799–1802 ...
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. [ 34 ]
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 ...
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
Maharaja Ranjit Singh by Jewan Ram, an artist from Delhi, accompanied the Governor General to Ropar.. The Ropar Meeting in October 1831 was between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General of the East India Company, on the banks of the river Satluj, in a town of the same name. [1]