Oil Painting of Court of Lahore by August Theodore Schoefft

This Oil painting shows the court of Lahore during rule of Sikhs. Sikh empire continued from 1799 till 1849.

The Sikh Domain turned into a country beginning withinside the Indian subcontinent, molded underneath the administration of Ranjit Singh, who introduced a domain fundamentally based completely withinside the Punjab. The domain existed from 1799, whereas Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, whereas it turned into crushed and prevailed withinside the Moment Anglo-Sikh War. It turned into cast at the establishments of the Khalsa from a set of free Sikh misls. At its stature withinside the nineteenth century, the Domain drawn out from the Khyber Pass withinside the west to western Tibet withinside the east, and from Mithankot withinside the south to Kashmir withinside the north. It separated into 4 territories: Lahore, in Punjab, which have gotten to be the Sikh capital; Multan, moreover in Punjab; Peshawar; and Kashmir from 1799 to 1849. Religiously assorted, with an imagined people of 3.5 million in 1831.

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