Tag: development of sikh religion (1539 - 1581 ad)

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the founder and maharaja of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He introduced reforms, modernisation, investment into infrastructure and general prosperity. He first got married at the age of 15 to Mehtab Kaur who was the daughter of  Gurbaksh Singh Kanhaiya and Sada Kaur.

Guru Har Krishan was the eighth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He ascended to the throne of Guruship on Sunday, 20 October 1661, at the young age of five years and became the youngest Guru in Sikhism. He attended to and served the suffering people with complete devotion and in the process himself contracted disease and died at the age of 8.

The Treaty of Amritsar of 1809 was an agreement between the British East India Company and Ranjit Singh at Amritsar. The treaty settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation. Although the terms of the treaty prevented Singh from any further territorial expansion south of the Sutlej, they also permitted him complete freedom of action to the north of it.

The British were concerned about potential Russian expansion into Central Asia and India, leading them to seek alliances with regional powers like Ranjit Singh to act as a buffer.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was born on November 13, 1780, in Gujranwala.

Guru Har Rai was the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He never disbanded the armed Sikh Warriors and always boosted the military spirit of the Sikhs, but he never himself indulged in any direct political and armed controversy. He guided the Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his death at age 31.

Emperor Jahangir was the Mughal ruler who ordered the execution of the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev, in 1606.

Guru Arjan Singh Dev ji was the fifth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth. He built the Golden Temple and also developed Amritsar as a Centre of Excellence.

Guru Hargobind was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He introduced the process of militarization to Sikhism which according to him had become a necessity following his father's execution. He was also the inventor of the Taus, a bowed string instrument.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh assumed full control of the administration of his kingdom at the age of 17, following the death of his mother and the end of the regency period.