Sikh Empire
The Sikh Empire (officially the Sarkar Khalsa) was a major power in the Indian subcontinent, which arose under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh who captured Lahore in 1799, and established the empire basing it around the Punjab, Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions . The empire existed from 1799 to 1849 and was forged on the foundations of the Khalsa from a collection of autonomous Punjabi Misls. At its peak in the 19th century, the empire extended from the Khyber Pass in the west to western Tibet in the east, and from Bahawalpur in the south to Jammu and Kashmir in the north.
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