Sikhs After the Tenth Guru

The Sikh government built up after Nanak's passing went on until not long after the demise of the Tenth Guru, Gobind Singh. In the turbulent eighteenth century, the Sikh kingdom disintegrated into a few medieval states and the Sikhs turned into a confederation of warrior clans.

By the mid eighteenth century kaum de heere cast, Sikh guerillas tested the Mogul overlords and added to the breakdown of Moghul organization in the Punjab. They additionally helped keep Afghan intruders out when they attacked India somewhere in the range of 1747 and 1769. One of the most acclaimed Sikh legends was Baba Deep Singh. During a fight to spare the Golden Temple from despoiling he purportedly had his head cut off yet kept appropriate on battling with a sword in one hand and his head in the other.

Maharajah Ranjit Singh, the "Lion of Punjab," led over the majority of the Punjab from Lahore in the mid nineteenth century. He developed as pioneer toward the part of the bargain century and remained the Sikh chief until his demise in 1839. After he kicked the bucket the political side of Sikhism fell into decay. The last Sikh lord, Maharajah Dhulip Singh, embraced Christianity and gave the biggest jewel on the planet around then, the Koh-I-nur, to Queen Victoria.

The British saw the Sikhs as a military race and effectively selected them starting in the mid nineteenth century for their military powers in India. Sikhs additionally served in the British military abroad. The introduction of these Sikh warriors to the outside world propelled the primary rushes of Sikh resettlement, to Britain and to British provinces in Malaysia, Burma, Africa and different spots.