At present, there is a lot of discussion in the country about the golden throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. People want to know whether the Government of India will be able to bring back the golden throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Actually, Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha recently raised the demand to bring back the royal throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Rajya Sabha. He said in the Rajya Sabha that I am raising an issue with which the sentiments of not only Punjab but the whole country are attached. Let us tell you today who was Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Whoever has read the history of India must know Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maharaja Ranjit Singh

was born on 13 November 1780 in Gujranwala, Punjab. Gujranwala is now in Pakistan. When he was just 10 years old, he participated in his first war. He took over the throne at the age of just 12 and conquered Lahore at the age of 18. During his reign of 40 years, he did not allow the British to even wander around his empire.

British administrator and diplomat Sir Lepel Griffin has written a book on Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ‘Ranjit Singh’. In this, Lepek writes that even though there was a distance of 5000 kilometers between the French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte and Maharaja Ranjit Singh, both were contemporaries. Both were short in height, but both had won big military battles.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was just 12 years old when his father died. The responsibilities of the throne fell on his shoulders at a young age. But his coronation happened when he was 20 years old. Ranjit Singh was crowned as the Maharaja of Punjab on 12 April 1801. After the coronation, he annexed Amritsar to his empire in 1802 and in 1807 he captured Kasur by defeating Afghan ruler Qutubuddin. He captured Multan in 1818 and Kashmir in 1819. However, Maharaja Ranjit Singh died on 27 June 1839. It is said that the decline of the Sikh Empire started after this.