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Sikh struggle against Mughal empire [1708 - 1799]
AFGHAN- SIKH RELATIONS
Tags: shah, singh, sikhs, sikh, lahore, khan, ahmad, punjab, afghan, durrani, invasion, shuja
AFGHAN SIKH RELATIONS spanning the years 1748 to 1849 go back to the first invasion of India by Ahmad Shah Durrani, although he must have heard of the Sikhs when in 1739 he accompanied Nadir Shah, the Iranian invader, as a young staff officer....
BUDDHA DAL
Tags: singh, sikhs, buddha, amritsar, misi, khan, khalsa, taruna, jathas, kapur, delhi, shah
BUDDHA DAL and Taruna Dal, names now appropriated by two sections of the Nihang Sikhs, were the popular designations of the two divisions of Dal Khalsa, the confederated army of the Sikhs during the eighteenth century. With the execution of Banda...
CHALI MUKTE,
Tags: singh, guru, sikh, bhai, mukta, mukte, martyrs, title, muktsar, gobind, muktas, sikhs
CHALI MUKTE, lit. forty (chalf) liberated ones (mukte), is how a band of 40 brave Sikhs who laid down their lives fighting near the dhab or lake of Khidrana, also called Isharsar, on 29 December 1705 against a Mughal force in chase of Guru Gobind...
CHHOTA GHALLUGHARA,
Tags: sikhs, lakhpat, lahore, sikh, ghallughara, amritsar, ordered, 1746, panth, guru, march, forest
CHHOTA GHALLUGHARA, lit. minor holocaust or carnage, as distinguished from Vadda Ghallughara (q.v.) or major massacre, is how Sikh chronicles refer to a bloody action during the severe campaign of persecution launched by the Mughal government at...
FATUHAT NAMAH-I-SAMADI,
Tags: singh, sikhs, khan, banda, author, ussamad, 1713, sirhind, large, mughal, samad, delhi
FATUHAT NAMAH-I-SAMADI, an unpublished Persian manuscript preserved in the British Library, London, under No. Or. 1870, is an account of the victories of `Abd us-Samad Khan. Nawab Saifud Daulah `Abd usSamad Khan Bahadur Diler Jang was appointed...
FATEHNAMAH
Tags: sikhs, battle, singh, khan, zaman, shah, poet, work, forces, shahanchi, gujrat, field
FATEHNAMAH, by Bhai Dyal Singh, is a versified account of the victory (fateh, in Persian) of the Sikhs in the battle fought on Sunday, 22 Baisakh 1854 Bk/30 April 1797, against Shah Zaman`s forces led by one of his generals Ahmad Khan, also called...
JANGNAMA
Tags: shah, sikh, singh, sikhs, muhammad, khan, nasir, ahmad, qazi, sirhind, battle, lahore
JANGNAMA, by Qazi Nur Muhammad, is an eyewitness account in Persian verse of Ahmad Shah Durrani`s seventh invasion of India, 1764-65, for which it is the only major source of information. A copy of the manuscript in the hand of one Khair Muhammad of...
KHUIASAT UT-TWARIKH
Tags: guru, the, sujan, nanak, years, reign, delhi, work, successor, batala, bahadur, arjan
KHUIASAT UTTWARIKH, a chronicle in Persian by Munshi Sujan Rai Bhandari of Batala, completed in the 40th year of Aurarigzib`s reign (A.H. 1107/AU 1695-96), edited by Zafar Hasan and published at Delhi in 1918. Sujan Rai was a professional munshi and...
NADAUN, BATTLE
Tags: singh, guru, khan, raja, patiala, giani, alif, gobind, chand, river, dyal, kirpal
NADAUN, BATTLE OF, fought on 20 March 1691 between an imperial expeditionary force aided by Raja Kirpal Chand of Kangra and Raja Dyal of Bijharval in the Sivalik hills on the one hand and several other neighbouring chieftains who enjoyed the support...
RUHILA-SIKH RELATIONS
Tags: singh, muhammad, patiala, mansab, rank, emperor, received, chief, ruhilas, started, life, foot
RUHILASIKH RELATIONS. The Ruhilas came from the Yusafzai tribe of Afghans originally belonging to Roh, a tract of land south of Chitral in the North-West Frontier region. They established themselves in the early years of the eighteenth century as a...

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