Editing Multan (section)

====1848 Multan Revolt====

The 1848 revolt and subsequent [[Siege of Multan (1848–1849)|siege of Multan]] began on 19 April 1848 when local Sikhs loyal to Diwan Mulraj Chopra murdered two emissaries of the [[British Raj]], [[Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew|Vans Agnew]] and Lieutenant Anderson.<ref name="Riddick">{{cite book|last1=Riddick|first1=John F.|title=The History of British India: A Chronology|date=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313322808|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&q=william+whish+multan&pg=PA49}}</ref> The two British visitors were in Multan to attend a ceremony for Sardar Kahan Singh, who had been selected by the [[British East India Company]] to replace Diwan Mulraj Chopra as ruler of Multan.<ref name="Bingham">{{cite book|last1=Bingham|first1=Jane|title=Sikhism|date=2008|publisher=Black Rabbit Books|isbn=9781599200590|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3R4dARsm1CIC&q=multan&pg=PA28|access-date=17 March 2017}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Rebellion engulfed the Multan region under the leadership of Mulraj Chopra and [[Sher Singh Attariwalla]].<ref name="Riddick"/> The Multan Revolt triggered the start of the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]],<ref name="Bingham"/> during which the ''sajjada nashin'' of the [[Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya]] sided with the British to help defeat the Sikh rebels.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Hussain Ahmad|title=Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab|date=2014|publisher=IB Taurus|isbn=9781784530143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56gcBgAAQBAJ&q=bahauddin+zakariya+&pg=PA150|access-date=8 September 2017}}</ref> The revolt eventually resulted in the fall of the [[Sikh Empire]] in 1849.<ref>{{cite book |last=Grewal |first=J.S. |date=1990 |title=The Sikhs of the Punjab |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_nryFANsoYC&pg=PA107 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=107 |isbn=0-521-63764-3 |access-date=16 March 2017 }}</ref>