Tag: maharaja ranjit singh
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s life-size sculpture unveiled in Lahore
Pakistan is unveiling a life-size sculpture of Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh outside the Sikh Gallery at Lahore Fort on the occasion of his 180th death anniversary on June 27. The Nation newspaper reports that the life-size sculpture shows Maharaja Ranjit Singh sitting on his favourite Arabic horse named Kahar Bahar. The horse was gifted to him by…
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How the British projected Maharaja Ranjit Singh as villain desecrating mosques
By Haroon Khalid in Dawn LAHORE: Lying in the heart of modern Lahore, a city that became the center of colonial and post-colonial history, is the Gora Kabristan or the white graveyard. Gora here is a euphemism for Christian. This is the largest Christian graveyard of Lahore and hints at the ethnic diversity that existed…