Sikh Wars, (1845–46; 1848–49), two campaigns battled between the Sikhs and the British. They brought about within the success and addition by the British of the Punjab in northwestern India. The to begin with war was accelerated by common doubts and the turbulence of the Sikh army. The Sikh state within the Punjab had been built into a imposing control by the maharaja Ranjit Singh, who ruled from 1801 to 1839. Inside six a long time of his passing, be that as it may, the government had broken down in a arrangement of royal residence transformations and deaths. By 1843 the ruler was a boy—the most youthful child of Ranjit Singh—whose mother was broadcasted ruler official. Genuine control, however, resided with the armed force, which was itself within the hands of panchs, or military committees. Relations with the British had as of now been strained by the refusal of the Sikhs to permit the section of British troops through their domain amid the Primary Anglo-Afghan War (1838–42). Having decided to attack British India beneath the affection of thwarting a British assault, the Sikhs crossed the Sutlej Stream in December 1845. They were crushed within the four grisly and hard-fought fights of Mudki, Firozpur, Aliwal, and Sobraon. The British attached Sikh lands east of the Sutlej and between it and the Beas Stream; Kashmir and Jammu were segregated, and the Sikh armed force was constrained to 20,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry. A British inhabitant was positioned in Lahore with British troops.