The Sikhs became particularly troublesome, and after several unsuccessful efforts to subdue them, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, Ranjit Singh, as his governor in the Punjab.

In return, the British government intimated that it would ask Ranjit Singh to reconcile with the Afghans.

In 1838 Auckland, Ranjit Singh, and Shuja signed an agreement stating that Shuja would regain control of Kabul and Kandahar with the help of the British and Sikhs ; he would accept Sikh rule of the former Afghan provinces already controlled by Ranjit Singh, and that Herat would remain independent.

The Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, eventually wrested a large part of the Kingdom of Kabul ( present day Pakistan, but not including Sindh ) from the Afghans.

It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( 1780 – 1839 ) from an array of autonomous Punjabi Misls.

Ranjit Singh proved himself to be a master strategist and selected well qualified generals for his army.

* 1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of The Punjab ( Sikh Empire ).

The city was invaded by Ranjit Singh and his Sikh army in the early 19th century but was quickly chased out a few days later by Afghan forces of Durrani Empire.

He went to Lahore where Ranjit Singh forced him to surrender it ; in return for this, Ranjit Singh won back the Afghan throne for Shah Shuja.

Ranjit Singh was crowned ruler of the Punjab region and willed the Koh-i-Noor to the Jagannath Temple in Orissa from his death bed in 1839.

: The gem called the Koh-i-Noor which was taken from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk by Maharajah Ranjit Singh shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England.

A lithography | lithograph by Emily Eden showing one of the favourite horses of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with the head officer of his stables and his collection of jewels, including the Koh-i-Noor that he extorted from list of monarchs of Afghanistan | Afghan Emir Shuja Shah Durrani.

Dalhousie arranged that the diamond should be presented by Maharaja Ranjit Singh's young successor, Duleep Singh, to Queen Victoria in 1850.

Duleep Singh was the youngest son of Ranjit Singh and his fifth wife Maharani Jind Kaur.

That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir.

In 1819, the Kashmir valley passed from the control of the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan, and four centuries of Muslim rule under the Mughals and the Afghans, to the conquering armies of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh of Lahore.

Ranjit Deo's grandnephew, Gulab Singh, subsequently sought service at the court of Ranjit Singh, distinguished himself in later campaigns, especially the annexation of the Kashmir valley, and, for his services, was appointed governor of Jammu in 1820.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( Punjab ) | Maharaja Ranjit Singh ca.

Ranjit Singh | Sher e Punjab ( Lion of Punjab Ranjit Singh )

| Ranjit Hayer of Calgary, Alberta, gave birth to twin boys, in February 2009, at the age of 60, became pregnant through fertility treatments and IVF practiced in India, after several miscarriages in several years.

The Dogras succeeded in raising Sher Singh, the eldest illegitimate son of Ranjit Singh, to the throne in January 1841.

He served faithfully under Ranjit Singh and his successors Kharak Singh, Nau Nihal Singh and Sher Singh until his retirement in 1843.

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.

# http :// gg. ca / honours / search-recherche / honours-desc. asp? lang = e & TypeID = orc & id = 2583 Dr. Ranjit Chandra's Order of Canada citation.

* 1780 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab ( Sikh Empire ), ( d. 1839 )

** Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( Sikh Empire, Punjab ) 1801 – 1839

* Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( Sikh Empire, Punjab )

* Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( Sikh Empire, Punjab )

* June 27 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab ( Sikh Empire ), ( b. 1780 )

* July 12 – Ranjit Singh the Great conquers Lahore and becomes ruler of the Punjab.

* November 13 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab ( Sikh Empire ), ( d. 1839 )

Undivided Punjab was ruled by a Sikh dynasty founded by Maharaja Ranjit Singh for 50 years from 1799 to 1849 AD, before its conquest by the British.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab province annexed a major part of the Kashmir Valley, including Srinagar, to his kingdom in the year 1814 and the city came under the influence of the Sikhs.

From the commencement of his reign he found himself involved in disputes with Ranjit Singh, the Sikh ruler of the Punjab region, who used the dethroned Sadozai prince, Shah Shujah Durrani, as his instrument.

Most of the territory of this province was originally a part of the Afghan Durrani Kingdom from the 18th century to around the 1820s, when the Sikh ruler or Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the former mayor of the Afghan city of Lahore, taking advantage of the internal chaos of the Afghan ruling family, declared independence and annexed it to his own empire based out of the Punjab.

Ranjit Singh's father Maha Singh was the Commander of the Sukerchakia misl and controlled a territory in the west Punjab based around his headquarters at Gujranwala.

Ranjit Singh was crowned on 12 April 1801 as the Maharaja of Punjab.

After driving them out of Punjab, Ranjit Singh and his Sikh army then invaded ethnic Pashtun territories in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

When Ranjit Singh, another Sikh chief from the Gujranwala area took Lahore from the Bhangi Misl the Lahore Fort fell to Ranjit Singh and in 1801 he was crowned as the emperor of all of the Punjab.

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 Gorkhali army east of the Sutlej river ).

This British expansion had already been resisted in India, culminating in three Anglo-Maratha wars as well as in the Punjab where Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire had their own aspirations.