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...Bhai Maharaj Singh (d. 1856), leader of the popular revolt against the British. ...the night of 28-29 December 1849. He, however, fell into the hands of the British soon afterwards.

...may be considered a draw, it was a strategic check to Britain, and damaged British prestige in India. ...ulraj and Sher Singh had no aims in common. Sher Singh decided to move his army north, to join that of his father, General Chattar Singh Attariwalla, who h

...tish military garrison in India. Today the city is the Headquarters of the Army of Pakistan.

...from Abbott's point of view of Chatar Singh Atarivala's revolt against the British at Hazara and at Lahore. James Abbott who retired as a general died on 6 Oc

...h governor of the province, Diwan Savan Mall, but he soon returned to the army. In 1836, he secured a ranked position in the Sikh court which he held unti ...sed into the hands of Raja Lal Singh who appointed him aa a general in the army.

...ons of the regular Sikh army. In 1839, he was sent to Peshawar with other army generals to help Colonel Wade's contingent to force the Khaibar Pass for an ...s army on the morning of 22 December and drove straight into the shattered British cavalry lines. But suddenly his guns ceased to fire. He abandoned the field

...he Duke of Wellington. He came to India in 1837, and, after serving in the army in various capacities, became the CommanderinChief in 1843. ...vestment ofMultan and Frederick Currie's acquiescence in the movement of a British column to support him incensed Dalhousie. Lord Gough's refusal to dismiss G

...AngloSikh wars of 184546 and 184849. Few accounts of these wars written by British historians and men of letters in the nineteenth century are as unbiased as ...hey conclude that defeat of the Sikhs was not enough. The interests of the British empire required that they be subjugated and the Sikh dynasty,destroyed.

...r at the negotiations which led to the cis-Sutlej chiefs being taken under British protection in 1809. In 1812, he was induced by [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] to ...heirs subject to them providing of 180 horsemen for the Maharaja's Khalsa Army.

...khs played a pioneering role in India's struggle for independence from the British. They made sacrifices wholly out of proportion to their demographic strengt Out of 2125 Indians killed in the atrocities by the British, 1550 (73%) were Sikhs.

...t of the extraordinary behaviour of Captain James Abbott, assistant to the British resident at Lahore, who had defied the governor`s authority by raising Musl

...igious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...s old, and a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he

...f China and a threatened invasion of India via Burma, he enlisted into the Army as number 22356 of First Sikh regiment as Sepoy on 15 September 1941. ...Army. He is the only Indian soldier to win the highest medals of both the British and Indian governments. With the award of the VC he was promoted from Sepoy

...suffered. The massacre caused an outrage in London. The next year a larger army was sent to exact retribution.

...the treacherous Dogra’s sold out the Lahore Darbar to the British, and the British were planning on annexing the Punjab. ...Amritsar and approached Jathedar Hanuman Singh for assistance against the British.

...Asia that was formed on 14 August 1947 from the previous country known as "British India". Pakistan borders [[India]], Iran, Afghanistan, China and the Arabia ...ngh]] Twenty one year old Harcharan Singh has become Pakistan's first Sikh army officer

...oughton) in numerous bound volumes in the British Library. Lord Broughton, British administrator, who served as President of the Board of Control of the East ...e in 183638, which led to the signing of the Tripartite treaty between the British government, Shah Shuja' and Ranjit Singh in 1838.

...om this region. These were several generals in [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh's]] army of the Sikh Empire in the first half of the 19th century. ...undar Singh Majithia) had great impact on the affairs of Punjab during the British rule through the latter 1800s and the first half of the 20th century.

...February 1849). He fell in the lastnamed battle. His^agirwas seized by the British upon the occupation of the Punjab.

...he side of Diwan Mul Raj at Multan. He was deprived of his jdgirs by the British after the Punjab was annexed in 1849. During the uprising of 1857, he enli