Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Photo: Unknown Company School artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
1819 to 1846
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army took Kashmir in 1819 and it became part of the Sikh Empire based in Lahore. The period was short and, by most accounts, hard for the Valley's people. It ended after the First Anglo-Sikh War, when the British transferred Kashmir to Gulab Singh.
Events in this period
1819
Sikh forces win at Shopian
In July 1819 the army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh defeated the forces of the last Afghan governor near Shopian, and Kashmir became part of the Sikh Empire.
In the museumMaharaja Ranjit Singh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Photo: Unknown Company School artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In this wing
3 exhibits
Further reading for this period
Books that cover this period. They are places to read further, not sources for any single sentence on this page.
- The Valley of KashmirWalter R. Lawrence, 1895
- Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of KashmirChitralekha Zutshi, 2004