Editing Ranjit Singh (section)

===Extent of the rule===
The Sikh Empire, also known as the Sikh Raj and Sarkar-a-Khalsa,<ref name=eos-Khalsa>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Ganda |last=Singh |editor1-last=Singh |editor1-first=Harbans |editor1-link=Harbans Singh |title=Khalsa |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia Of Sikhism | volume=II E–L |edition=Third |page=473 |publisher=Punjabi University Patiala |url=https://archive.org/details/TheEncyclopediaOfSikhism-VolumeIiE-l/page/473/mode/1up |date=2011 |isbn=978-8-1-7380-204-1 |language=English}}</ref> was in the Punjab region, the name of which means "the land of the five rivers". The five rivers are the [[Beas River|Beas]], [[Ravi River|Ravi]], [[Sutlej]], [[Chenab]] and [[Jhelum River|Jhelum]], all of which are tributaries of the river [[Indus]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Marie Lafont|title=Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Lord of the Five Rivers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjduAAAAMAAJ |year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-566111-8 }}</ref>

The geographical reach of the Sikh Empire under Singh included all lands north of Sutlej River, and south of the high valleys of the northwestern Himalayas. The major towns at the time included Srinagar, Attock, Peshawar, Bannu, Rawalpindi, Jammu, Gujrat, Sialkot, Kangra, Amritsar, Lahore and Multan.<ref name="Smith1920p690"/>{{Sfn|Marshall|2005|page=116}}

Muslims formed around 70%, Hindus formed around 24%, and Sikhs formed around 6–7% of the total population living in Singh's empire<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]] |volume=38 |number=26 |date=June–July 2003 |pages=2693–2701 |publisher=Economic and Political Weekly |title=Scheduled Castes in Sikh Community: A Historical Perspective |first=Harish K. |last=Puri |jstor=4413731}}</ref>{{rp|2694}}