SIKHS REOCCUPIED LAHORE – April 1765
Ahmad Shah Durrani left for Afghanistan in March 1765. Like past one decade, no sooner had he left, and Sikhs planned to recapture the provincial capitals and major cities. The Sikhs celebrated their Baisakhi festival at Amritsar on the 10th of April and there decided, by a Gurmata, to take possession of Lahore. Kabuli Mall, the governor, was then at Jammu, recruiting two thousand Dogra musketeers for service in Lahore.
In 1758, Sikhs & Marathas (with Adina Beg) won Lahore without any battle. In 1761 Sikhs again captured Lahore but later lost to Abdali. In 1764, the Durrani governor Kabuli Mal was defeated, and he paid a heavy tribute to Sikhs. Kabuli Mal was allowed to continue when he agreed to have a vakil of Hari Singh Bhangi permanently in his court.
Sardar Lehna Singh and Gujjar Singh Bhangi moved from Eangarh-Waniyeke at the head of two thousand Sikhs and, with the assistance of some residents of the village of Baghbanpura, who were employed in the fort, entered it through an opening and established themselves there on the night of Baisakh Vadi 11, 1822 Bk., April 16, 1765. Amir Singh, the nephew of Kabuli Mall, issued out of his mansion the next morning and fired a few shots from a gun mounted on the city wall. Tara Singh of Muzang rushed out with a band of only twenty-five men, dispersed the half- hearted followers of the Bakishi of Lahore forces and captured him along with Jagan Nath, son-in-law of Kabuli Mall. Sobha Singh Kanhaiya also joined the Bhangi Sardars, and they divided among themselves the city and its neighbourhood.
Reference: Ahmad Shah Durrani father of modern Afghanistan by Ganda Singh 1959
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