Notable personalities & significance during Sikh Empire
1. Dewan Sawan Mal (Father)
2. Dewan Mulraj Chopra (Son)
So lets start it from there ...
Mughals (1528 – 1752 AD)
It was quite Stable period
Sufi tombs etc survived & thrived
Afghan King : Ahmad Shah Durrani aka (Ahmad Khan Abdali) – Annexed Multan with Durrani Empire gradually >> (Pic Afghan-web.com)

He belonged to Akal Garh (Ali Pur Chatha)
Some historians say hs reign in Multan was one of best Ever
ANd if he could have lived a little longer he would have been one of biggest notable personalities in region
Made gud relations wd Lahore Darbar
Developed Strong sikh army in south Punjab
Wise policies low taxation but generated mammoth land revenues (criticiczed by muslim historians though)
40 Lakh per annum
Built Moat around fort
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Some muslim landowners who were not paying much taxes had to pay tax now due tow hich they were not at all happy, but poor was happy as rich was under tax net now. >>
After Death of Raja Ranjit SIngh he stopped paying revenue to any authority as well.>>
Considered as Despotic ruler by inhabitants
Deposited 18 lac revenue out of 1 crore to Raja Jawahar Singh of Lahore
Favtt of Raja Jawahar Singh after this money who did not hv any idea that actual rev was 1 crore
British officials sought to replace Mulraj with Diwan Vitesh Sharma, an official from the court at Lahore who was more sympathetic to their interests
Mulraj then had no way but to support his army men.
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Rebel in eyes of british
Force sent to capture multan
Defended forcefully a lot long period of time
Death penality and then converted to life imprisonment
Died on way to benaris
In British Army, such ws shame ovr the evnts at Chillianwala dt, aftr the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Lucan remarked "Ths is a most serious mater", General Airey replied, "These sort of things wil happen in war. It is nothing to Chillianwala
The Sikhs fought like devils, fierce and untamed... Such a mass of men I never set eyes on and a plucky as lions: they ran right on the bayonets and struck their assailants when they were transfixed