Editing Ranjit Singh (section)

===Death===
[[File:Maharaja Ranjit Singh's funeral.jpg|thumb|Maharaja Ranjit Singh's funeral. ca. 1840]]
[[File:Samadhi of Ranjit Singh 1.jpg|thumb|The [[Samadhi of Ranjit Singh]] is located in [[Lahore]], Pakistan, adjacent to the iconic [[Badshahi Mosque]].]]
In the 1830s, Ranjit Singh suffered from numerous health complications as well as a stroke, which some historical records attribute to alcoholism and a failing liver.<ref name="Smith1920p690" /><ref>{{cite book|author=Kartar Singh Duggal|title=Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the Last to Lay Arms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4udb8LsF3-oC&pg=PA107 |year=2001|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-410-3|pages=107–108 }}</ref> According to the chronicles of Ranjit Singh's court historians and the Europeans who visited him, Ranjit Singh took to alcohol and [[opium]], habits that intensified in the later decades of his life.<ref>{{cite book|author=Khushwant Singh|title=Ranjit Singh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D068dKeyGW4C  |year=2008|publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-306543-2 |pages= 6, 253–254 }}</ref><ref name="Macintyre2008p154">{{cite book |author=Ben Macintyre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6XLFu1xMOMC |title=The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan |publisher=Macmillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4668-0379-4 |pages=154–157}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Aditya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5McDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |title=Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807–13 |date=2016 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-129-0 |page=133 |language=en}}</ref> He died in his sleep on 27 June 1839.<ref name="Anand2015p13" /><ref name="britranjit" /> According to William Dalrymple, Ranjit Singh had been washed with water from the Ganges, paid homage to the Guru Granth Sahib, and was fixated on an image of Vishnu and Lakshmi just before his death.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dalrymple |first1=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPVrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT98 |title=Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond |last2=Anand |first2=Anita |date=2017-06-15 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4088-8885-8 |language=en}}</ref>

Four of his Hindu wives- Mehtab Devi (Guddan Sahiba), daughter of Raja Sansar Chand, Rani Har Devi, the daughter of Chaudhri Ram, a Saleria Rajput, Rani Raj Devi, daughter of Padma Rajput and Rani Rajno Kanwar, daughter of Sand Bhari along with seven Hindu concubines with royal titles committed [[Sati (practice)|sati]] by voluntarily placing themselves onto his funeral pyre as an act of devotion.<ref name="Anand2015p13" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Altekar|first=Anant S.|page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYG4K0yYHQgC&pg=PA131|title=The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day |year=1956 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-8120803244}}</ref>

Singh is remembered for uniting Sikhs and founding the prosperous Sikh Empire. He is also remembered for his conquests and building a well-trained, self-sufficient Khalsa army to protect the empire.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Heath|title=The Sikh Army 1799–1849|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=bT8UvgAACAAJ|year= 2005|publisher= Bloomsbury |isbn= 978-1-84176-777-2|pages= 5–8}}</ref> He amassed considerable wealth, including gaining the possession of the [[Koh-i-Noor]] diamond from [[Shuja Shah Durrani]] of Afghanistan, which he left to [[Jagannath Temple, Puri|Jagannath Temple]] in [[Puri]], [[Odisha]] in 1839.<ref name="ReferenceA">''The Real Ranjit Singh''; by Fakir Syed Waheeduddin, published by Punjabi University, {{ISBN|81-7380-778-7}}, 2001, 2nd ed.</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Isabel Burton|title=Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egyyNGelXQcC |year= 2012|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn= 978-1-108-04642-8|page=168}}</ref>