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6 unusual facts about Ranjit Singh


Ram V Sutar

Another well known sculpture of his is the 21 feet high Equestrian statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh which he made for Amritsar.

Ranjit Singh

In 1802 Ranjit Singh took Amritsar from the Bhangi Sardari and followed this in 1807, after a month of fierce fighting, with the conquest of Kasur from the Afghan chief Qutb ud-Din.

On 8 October 1926, she committed suicide, local fishermen dragged her body from the sea, off Monte Carlo.

Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon

Dhillon also wrote Annexation, an English novel based partly on the life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Syed Ahmad Barelvi

After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839 that the city of Peshawar came under the influence of Syed Ahmads movement.

Victor Duleep Singh

Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh (10 July 1866- 7 June 1918) was the eldest son of Maharani Bamba Müller and Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Lahore, and of the Sikh Empire, and the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.


Battle of Gujrat

His aim was to recover the area around Peshawar, which had been conquered by Ranjit Singh early in the nineteenth century, but his support was half-hearted.

Chatha

Maha Singh was a chief of the Chatha tribe and leader of the Sukerchakia Misl who's son Ranjit Singh became the Maharajah of Punjab.

Dogra dynasty

The first ruler was Gulab Singh, who became Raja of Jammu and Kashmir through a grant from the Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and subsequently accepted the throne of Kashmir.

History of Kathmandu

Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as the Kangra – the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and driven the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).

Kalsia

When Maharaja Ranjit Singh attacked and occupied Naraingarh in the Shivaliks in 1807, Jodh Singh was with him.

Kotli

As stated in History of the Punjab Hill States by J.Hutchinson and J.P. Vogel: "Kotli was founded about the fifteenth century by a branch of the royal family of Kashmir. Kotli and Poonch remained independent until subdued by Ranjit Singh in 1815 and 1819 respectively."

Mughal rule in Himachal Pradesh

Both the Sikhs and British wanted to avoid a direct conflict, but after the death of Ranjit Singh, the Khalsa army fought numerous wars with the British.

Qadian

In 1834, during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the region consisting of Qadian and five other adjoining villages were given to Mirza Ghulam Murtaza, father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad inturn for Military support in Military support in Kashmir, Mahadi, Kulu valley, Peshawar and Hazara.

Shah Mohammad

Shah Mohammad (1780–1862) was a Punjabi poet who lived during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and is best known for Jangnama— a colossal work that gave an eyewitness account of the First Anglo-Sikh War that took place after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.


see also

Daughter of Earth

Marie, still working vigorously as a journalist for The Call and attending school, meets an Indian named Sardar Ranjit Singh.

History of Himachal Pradesh

However,Raja Ram Singh, Raja of Siba State re-capture the Siba fort after defeating the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Mahan Singh Mirpuri

He was conferred by Maharaja Ranjit Singh the title of Raja for his conquests of Haripur, Nowshehra and Peshawar.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award

The Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award, is an award given by the Government of Punjab for excellence and achievement in the service of Punjab in the field of Sport.

Mirpuri

Mahan Singh Mirpuri (d. 1844), General in the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Nau Nihal Singh

His mother Maharani Chand Kaur became the Empress of Sikh Empire, from (1840–41) she challenged Sher Singh, the second son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sher-e-Panjab, the stepbrother of her husband Kharak Singh, on the grounds that her co-daughter Nau Nihal, Singh's widow, Sahib Kaur, was pregnant saying that she should assume regency on behalf of the unborn legal successor to her husband's throne.

Raja Dina Nath

In 1815, at the instance of Diwan Ganga Ram, Maharaja Ranjit Singh invited Dina Nath to Lahore and offered him the post of mutsaddi, or writer, in the department of military accounts.

Shah Shujah Durrani

In 1838 he had gained the support of the British and the Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh for wresting power from Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai.