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Multan

Punjab, Pakistan

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the subcontinent and the fortified key to the south-western Punjab. Its capture in 1818, after a siege of months, opened the Sikh Empire's expansion beyond the Punjab proper.

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People connected: Hari Singh Nalwa, Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Eras: Era 3 — The Misl Period · Era 4 — The Sikh Empire

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  1. Khushwant Singh. A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839. Oxford University Press (2004). The chapters on Ranjit Singh's conquests
  2. J. S. Grewal. The Sikhs of the Punjab (The New Cambridge History of India II.3). Cambridge University Press (1990). Ch. 6, on the Sikh Empire
  3. Harbans Singh (ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism. Punjabi University, Patiala. no page given yet