Editing Multan (section)

===British Raj===
[[File:GHANTA GHAR MULTAN.jpg|thumb|Multan's Ghanta Ghar dates from the British colonial period, and was built in the [[Indo-Saracenic]] style.]]

By December 1848, the British had captured portions of Multan city's outskirts, and destroyed the [[Multan Fort]] while bombarding the city.<ref name="bo"/> In January 1849, the British had amassed a force of 12,000 to conquer Multan.<ref name="Riddick"/> On 22 January 1849, the British had breached the walls of the Multan Fort, leading to the surrender of Mulraj and his forces to the British.<ref name="Riddick"/> The British conquest of the Sikh Empire was completed in February 1849, after the British victory at the [[Battle of Gujrat]]. Between the 1890s and 1920s, the British laid a vast network of canals in the Multan region, and throughout much of central and Southern Punjab province.<ref name="Lahore">{{cite book|last1=Glover|first1=William|title=Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City|date=2008|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=9781452913384|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NRcKIZ2Y00C&q=multan&pg=PA4}}</ref> Thousands of "[[Punjab Canal Colonies|Canal Towns]]" and villages were built according to standardized plans throughout the newly irrigated swathes of land.<ref name="Lahore"/>