Explore the life of Kirpa Ram, a pivotal Sikh statesman and soldier, known for his leadership and historical influence during the 19th century.
Explore Frank E. Mevins's role as a Prussian colonel in the Sikh army and his discharge in 1830. Discover the historic conditions for foreign service in Punjab.
OMS (d. 1828), a Spaniard, also known as Amise, Musa Sahib, Urns and Hommus, served in Maharaja Ranjit Singh`s army. As a young man, he had enlisted in Napoleon`s artillery. After France`s defeat in 1815, he set out on his travels and reached Persia where he obtained employment declaring himself to be a Frenchman. He left Persia in 1824, reaching Lahore in 1826. He took up service under Maharaja Ranjit Sihgh on a salary of Rs 1,200 per month and was given command of two battalions of infantry and a regiment of cavalry.
Discover the legacy of Mai Raj Kaur, known as Mai Malvain, who led courageously in the Sukkarchakkia family until Ranjit Singh took power.
Explore Sahib Singh Bhangi's legacy in 18th century Punjab and his alliance with Ranjit Singh. Discover his strategic fort holdings and military prowess.Explore Sahib Singh Bhangi's legacy in 18th century Punjab and his alliance with Ranjit Singh. Discover his strategic fort holdings and military prowess.
Dive into the Persian chronicle by Munshi `Abd ul Karim `Alawi on Ranjit Singh, his heirs, and the historic Anglo Sikh wars, complete with maps and treaties.
Uncover history with Zafarnamah-i-Ranjit Singh, Kanhaiya Lal's Persian verse detailing the reigns of Maharaja Ranjit Singh & his successors. A must-read!
Explore Amir Chand's journey from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's treasury to his dismissal post Anglo-Sikh War, amidst duty and defalcation controversies.
BHAGAT RAM, BAKHSHI (1799-1865), son of Baisakhi Ram, a small moneychanger in the city of Lahore, joined the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1818 at the age of nineteen as a writer in the treasury office under Misr Belt Ram, the chief to shakhama or keeper of the State treasury. In 1824, he was appointed assistant writer of the accounts of the privy purse. In 1831, he was deputed to accompany Kanvar Sher Singh to the hills of Jalandhar Doab to collect revenue from the defaulting states of Mandi, Suket and Kullu. He came back to Lahore in 1832 and was appointed paymaster of fifty battalions of infantry, eight regiments of cavlary and twenty batteries of artillery.
CHATAR SINGH COLLECTION, comprising correspondence, papers, treaties, etc., particularly relating to transactions among the Dogra chiefs of Jammu (Dhian Singh, Gulab Singh and Suchet Singh) and between them and the Lahore Darbar, was put together by Thakur Chatar Singh of Dharamsala and is now preserved in the Punjab State Archives, at Patiala. These documents are mostly certified copies, very few of them being the original ones. The Handlist in the Archives (Nos. 490551) enumerates sixty-two documents in this collection, beginning from 9 March 1846 and contains correspondence of 0. St. John, the British Resident in Kashmir (No. 497) ; Col. Nisbet (No. 498) ; H.S. Barnes (No. 500) ; and Sir Frederick Currie (No. 501) all relating to Raja Gulab Singh and Kashmir.
