Ranjit Singh Takes Amritsar

1802

A one-eyed twenty-two-year-old warlord named Ranjit Singh entered the holy city of the Sikhs and made it his second capital. Over the next decade he would weld the feuding Sikh misls into a single empire stretching from the Khyber to the Sutlej - the last great independent power in northern India, and a serious headache for the Company.