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The Sikh Confederacy was a confederation of twelve sovereign Sikh states (each known as a Misl, derived from the Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal'; sometimes spelt as Misal)[2][3][4][5] which rose during the 18th century in the Punjab region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent and is cited as one of the causes of the weakening of the Mughal Empire prior to Nader Shah's invasion of India (1738–1740).[6]

Sikh Confederacy
Sikh Misalā
1748–1799
Seal of the Khalsa (1759) of Sikh Confederacy
Seal of the Khalsa (1759)
Motto: ਅਕਾਲ ਸਹਾਇ
Akāl Sahāi
"With God's Grace"
Anthem: ਦੇਗ ਤੇਗ ਫ਼ਤਿਹ
Dēg Tēg Fateh
"Victory to Charity and Arms"
Map of the Sikh Confederacy (1782)
Map of the Sikh Confederacy (1782)
StatusConfederation
CapitalAmritsar
LanguagePunjabi
Religion
Sikhism (official)
GovernmentAristocratic republics[1]
Jathedar 
• 1748–1753
Nawab Kapur Singh
• 1753–1783
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
• 1783–1799
Naina Singh
LegislatureSarbat Khalsa
History 
• Passing of Gurmata to establish the Sikh Confederacy
29 March 1748
• Ranjit Singh unites the Sikh Confederacy into the Sikh Empire
7 July 1799
CurrencyNanakshahi
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Durrani Empire
Mughal Empire
Sikh Empire
Cis-Sutlej states
Today part ofIndia
Pakistan

History

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Further information: Akal Sena, Khalsa Fauj, and Jatha

In order to withstand the persecution of Shah Jahan and other Mughal emperors, several of the later Sikh Gurus established military forces and fought the Mughal Empire and Simla Hills' Kings[7] in the early and middle Mughal-Sikh Wars and the Hill States–Sikh wars. Banda Singh Bahadur continued Sikh resistance to the Mughal Empire until his defeat at the Battle of Gurdas Nangal.

For several years Sikhs found refuge in the forests and the Himalayan foothills until they organized themselves into guerilla bands known as jathas.

The basis of the Dal Khalsa army was established in 1733–1735 based upon the numerous pre-existing Jatha militia groups and had two main formations: the Taruna Dal (Youth Brigade) and the Budha Dal (Elder Brigade).[8]

On the annual Diwali meeting of the Sarbat Khalsa in Amritsar in 1748, a Gurmata was passed where the Jathas were reorganized into a new grouping called misls, with 11 Misls forming out of the various pre-existing Jathas and a unified army known as the Dal Khalsa Ji.[8] Ultimate command over the Misls was bestowed to Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.[8]

The misls formed a commonwealth that was described by Swiss adventurer Antoine Polier as a natural "aristocratic republic".[9] Although the misls were unequal in strength, and each misl attempted to expand its territory and access to resources at the expense of others, they acted in unison in relation to other states.[6] The misls held biannual meetings of their legislature, the Sarbat Khalsa in Amritsar.[6]

List of sovereign states under the Sikh Confederacy

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List of Misls
Name Founder Founding clan(s) Capital(s) Other notable leaders Strength in Regular Horseman (1746)[10] Strength in Regular Horseman (1780)[11][12] Misl Period Territory by 1759[13][14] Corresponding Current Area Fate
Phulkian
(ਫੂਲਕੀਆਂ Phūlkī'āṅ) 		Phul Singh Sidhu (Jat)[15] Patiala
Nabha
Jind
Faridkot 		Ala Singh
Amar Singh 		5,000 5,000 Patiala, Nabha, Jind, Kaithal, Barnala, Bathinda, Sangrur Allied with the British and later became the princely states of Faridkot, Jind, Nabha, Malaudh and Patiala
Ahluwalia
(ਆਹਲੂਵਾਲੀਆ Āhlūwālī'ā) 		Sadho Singh Ahluwalia (Kalal)[16] Kapurthala Jassa Singh 3,000 10,000 Jalandhar district, Kapurthala district, Kana Dhillon, Nurmahal, Talwandi, Phagwara. Raja Fateh Singh would be allied with the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and later became the princely state of Kapurthala after the second Anglo-Sikh war[17]
Bhangi
(ਭੰਗੀ Bhangī) 		Chhajja Singh Dhillon (Jat)[18] Amritsar Bhuma Singh
Hari Singh
Jhanda Singh
Ganda Singh 		10,000 30,000 Tarn Taran, Lahore Tarn Taran district, Lahore Conquered by the Sukerchakia Misl which immediately formed the Sikh Empire
Kanhaiya
(ਕਨ੍ਹੱਈਆ Kanha'ī'ā) 		Jai Singh Sandhu (Jat)[19] Sohian Sada Kaur 8,000 8,000 Ajnala, Gurdaspur, Dera Baba Nanak,
Kalanaur, Pathankot, Sujanpur, Mukerian,[20] 		Gurdaspur district, Pathankot district, Hoshiarpur district Annexed by the Sikh Empire
Ramgarhia
(ਰਾਮਗੜ੍ਹੀਆ Rāmgaṛhī'ā) 		Jassa Singh Ramgharia (Tarkhan)[21] Sri Hargobindpur Jodh Singh
Tara Singh
Mangal Singh 		3,000 5,000 Batala, Urmar Tanda, Dasuya, Ghoman[22] Hoshiarpur district, Gurdaspur district, Jalandhar district, north of Amritsar Annexed by the Sikh Empire
Singhpuria
(ਸਿੰਘਪੁਰੀਆ Singhpurī'ā) 		Khushal Singh
Budh Singh 		Virk (Jat)[23][21] Jalandhar Khushal Singh
Budh Singh 		2,500 5,000 Singhpura, Amritsar, Sheikhupura, Jalandhar, Manauli, Bharatgarh, etc Amritsar district, Sheikhupura District, Pakistan Areas above the Sutlej river annexed by the Sikh Empire, areas below the river annexed by the British
Panjgarhia (ਪੰਜਗੜੀਆ Panjgaṛī'ā) [note 1] Karora Singh Virk, Dhaliwal, and Sandhu (Jat)[25][21]
 Shamchaurasi
Hariana
Chhachhrauli (Kalsia) 		Baghel Singh
Gur Bakhsh Singh[26][27] Jodh Singh 		12,000 10,000 Buria
Hoshiarpur
Hariana 		Yamunanagar district, Hoshiarpur district Annexed the British and later became the princely state of Kalsia, all territories above the Sutlej river annexed by the Sikh Empire
Nishanwalia
(ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨਵਾਲੀਆ Nishānwālī'ā) 		Dasaundha Singh Gill, Shergill (Jat)[28][21] Ambala
Shahbad Markanda 		Sangat Singh
Sukha Singh
Mehar Singh 		12,000 2,000 Shahbad Markanda, Ambala, Ropar, Sri Anandpur Sahib Ambala district, Ropar district, Present Chandigarh Area, Yamuna Nagar district, Shahbad Markanda and Kurukshetra Annexed by the British Raj and Sikh Empire for territories above the Sutlej river
Sukerchakia
(ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਚੱਕੀਆ Shukarchakī'ā) 		Charat Singh Sandhawalia, Hayer (Jat)[29][21] Gujranwala Maha Singh
Ranjit Singh 		2,500 75,000 Mughal Chak, Qila Didar Singh, Qila Mihan Singh, Ladhe Wala Waraich, Ferozewala, Butala Sham Singh, Marali Wala, Eminabad, Kalaske. Formed the Sikh Empire
Dallewalia
(ਡੱਲੇਵਾਲੀਆ Ḍalēvālī'ā) 		Gulab Singh Khatri, Kang & Badesha (Jat) [30][31] Rahon Tara Singh Ghaiba 7,500 5,000 Rahon, Nawashahr, Garshankar, Mahilpur, Banga, Phillaur, Nakodar, Shahkot, Dharamkot, Ropar-Sialba, Khanna, etc. Ludhiana district, Jalandhar district Annexed by the Sikh Empire
Nakai
(ਨਕਈ Naka'ī) 		Heera Singh Sandhu, Hundal (Jat)[32][21] Chunian Ran Singh
Karmo Kaur
Kahan Singh 		2,000 7,000 Baherwal, Khem Karan, Khudian, Gogera, Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan etc. Okara district, Pakistan Annexed by the Sikh Empire
Shaheedan
(ਸ਼ਹੀਦਾਂ Shahīdāṅ) 		Baba Deep Singh Sandhu and Benipal (Jat)[33][21] Shahzadpur Karam Singh
Sadhu Singh
Phula Singh 		2,000 5,000 Talwandi Sabo, Shahzadpur. Bathinda district, Panchkula district Annexed by the Sikh Empire

Military

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Sikh Confederacy
(1707–1799)
Phulkian Misl · Ahluwalia Misl · Bhangi Misl · Kanheya Misl · Ramgarhia Misl  · Singhpuria Misl · Panjgarhia Misl · Nishanwalia Misl · Sukerchakia Misl · Dallewalia Misl · Nakai Misl · Shaheedan Misl

Each Misl was made up of members of soldiers, whose loyalty was given to the Misl's leader. A Misl could be composed of a few hundred to tens of thousands of soldiers. Any soldier was free to join whichever Misl he wished, and was free to cancel his membership of the Misl to whom he belonged. He could, if he wanted, cancel his membership of his old Misl and join another. The Barons would allow their armies to combine or coordinate their defences together against a hostile force if ordered by the Misldar Supreme Commander. These orders were only issued in military matters affecting the whole Sikh community. These orders would normally be related to defense against external threats, such as Afghan military attacks. The profits of a fighting action were divided by the misls to individuals based on the service rendered after the conflict using the sardari system.

The Sikh Confederacy is a description of the political structure, of how all the barons' chiefdoms interacted with each other politically together in Punjab. Although misls varied in strength, the use of primarily light cavalry with a smaller amount heavy cavalry was uniform throughout all of the Sikh misls. Cavalrymen in a misl were required to supply their own horses and equipment.[34] A standard cavalryman was armed with a spear, matchlock, and scimitar.[35] How the armies of the Sikh misls received payment varied with the leadership of each misl. The most prevalent system of payment was the 'Fasalandari' system; soldiers would receive payment every six months at the end of a harvest.[36]

Cavalry tactics

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The Misls primarily employed cavalry in warfare. Detail of a depiction of a Misl-era Sikh cavalry warrior from a map of the Lahore Subah commissioned by Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil, ca.1770

Fauja Singh considers the Sikh misls to be guerrilla armies, although he notes that the Sikh misls generally had greater numbers and a larger number of artillery pieces than a guerrilla army would.[34] The misls were primarily cavalry based armies and employed less artillery than Mughal or Maratha armies. The misls adapted their tactics to their strength in cavalry and weakness in artillery and avoided pitched battles. Misls organized their armies around bodies of horsemen and their units fought battles in a series of skirmishes, a tactic which gave them an advantage over fighting pitched battles. Bodies of cavalry would attack a position, retreat, reload their muskets, and return to attack it again. The tactics used by misl field armies include flanking an enemy, obstructing river passages, cutting off a unit from its supplies, intercepting messengers, attacking isolated units like foraging parties, employing hit-and-run tactics, overrunning camps, and attacking baggage trains. To fight large armies the misl would completely evacuate the areas in front of the enemy's marching route but follow in the rear of the opposition and reconquer areas the enemy had just captured, threaten agents of the enemy with retribution, and sweep over the countryside in the wake of the enemy's withdrawal.

The Running Skirmish was a tactic unique to the Sikh cavalrymen which was notable for its effectiveness and the high degree of skill required to execute it. George Thomas and George Forster, contemporary writers who witnessed it described its use separately in their accounts of the military of the Sikhs. George Forster noted:

"A party from forty to fifty, advance in a quick pace to a distance of carbine shot from the enemy and then, that the fire may be given with the greatest certainty, the horses are drawn up and their pieces discharged, when speedily, retiring about a 100 paces, they load and repeat the same mode of annoying the enemy. Their horses have been so expertly trained to a performance of this operation that on receiving a stroke of hand, they stop from a full canter."

Administration

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Ramgarhia and Sukarchakia Misls hold a diplomatic meeting, 18th century painting

The remainder was separated into Puttees or parcels for each Surkunda, and these were again subdivided and parcelled out to inferior leaders, according to the number of horse they brought into the field. Each took his portion as a co-sharer, and held it in absolute independence.

— Origin of the Sikh power in the Punjab (1834) p. 33 – Henry Thoby Prinsep
 
Painting of three seated Sikh sardars (from left-to-right): Nahar Singh, Karam Singh Sidhu of the Shaheedan Misl, and Lehna Singh Kahlon of the Bhangi Misl, circa late 18th century

The Sikh Misls had four different classes of administrative divisions. The patadari, misaldari, tabadari, and jagirdari were the different systems of land tenure used by the misls, and land granted by the misl left the responsibility of establishing law and order to the owner of the land. The land under the direct administration of the chief of the misl was known as the sardari and the tabadari and jagirdari systems used land directly given by the chief from the sardari. The patadari and misaldari systems formed the basis of a misl, while tabadari and jagirdari lands would only be created after large acquisitions of land. The type of system that was used in an area depended on the importance of the chief sardar of the area to the rest of the misl.

Patadari system

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The Patadari system affected newly annexed territories and was the original method used by the misls in administering land.[37] The patadari system relied on the cooperation of surkundas, the rank of a leader of a small party of cavalrymen. The chief of the misl would take his/her portion and divide the other parcels among his Sardars proportional to the number of cavalrymen they had contributed to the misl.[38] The Sardars would then divide their parcels among their Surkundas, and then the Surkundas subdivided the land they received among their individual cavalrymen. The Surkundas receiving parcels of land with settlements were required to fortify them[note 2] and establish fines and laws for their zamindars and ryots.[39] Parcels of land in the patadari system could not be sold, but could be given to relatives in an inheritance.[40] The soldiers who received parcels from the Patadari system held their land in complete freedom.[6]

Misaldari system

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The Misaldari system applied to sardars with a small number of cavalrymen as well as independent bodies of cavalrymen who voluntarily attached themselves to a misl.[40] They kept the lands they held before joining the misl as an allotment for their cooperation with the misl. The leaders of these groups, called misaldars, could transfer their allegiance and land to another misl without punishment.[40]

Tabadari system

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The Tabadari system referred to land under the control of a misl's tabadars. Tabadars served a similar function to retainers in Europe. They were required to serve as cavalrymen to the misl and were subservient to the misl's leader. Although tabadars received their land as a reward, their ownership was subject entirely on the misl's leader.[41] The tabadari grants were only hereditary on the choice of the chief of the misl.

Jagirdari system

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The Jagirdari system used the grant of jagirs by the chief of the misl. Jagirs were given by the chief of the misl to relations, dependents, and people who "deserved well".[41] The owners of jagirs were subservient to the chief of the misl as their ownership was subject to his/her needs. Like the Tabadars, jagirdars were subject to personal service when the chief of the misl requested.[41] However, because jagirs entailed more land and profit, they were required to use the money generated by their jagirs to equip and mount a quota of cavalrymen depending on the size of their jagir.[41] Jagirdari grants were hereditary in practice but a misl's chief could revoke the rights of the heir. Upon the death of the owner of a tabadari or jagadari grant, the land would revert to direct control of the chief (sardari).

Rakhi system

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The Rakhi system was the payment-for-protection tributary protectorate scheme practiced by the Dal Khalsa of the Sikh Confederacy in the 18th century.[42][43] It was a large source of income to the Sikh Misls.[42][44]

Territory

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A map of the Punjab region showing general areas of the Misls
 
Political map created in 1923 of the Indian subcontinent during the years of 1700–1792
 
Approximate political map of Punjab from 1764–1803 by Joseph Davey Cunningham

The two main divisions in territory between the misls were between those who were in the Malwa region and those who were in the Majha region. While eleven of the misls were north of the Sutlej river, one, the Phulkian Misl was south of the Sutlej.[45] The Sikhs north of the Sutlej river were known as the Majha Sikhs while the Sikhs that lived south of the Sutlej river were known as the Malwa Sikhs.[24] In the smaller territories were the Dhanigeb Singhs in the Sind Sagar Doab, the Gujrat Singhs in the Jech Doab, the Dharpi Singhs in the Rechna Doab, and the Doaba Singhs in the Jalandhar Doab.[24]

Battles fought by Sikhs

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  1. Battle of Rohilla
  2. Battle of Kartarpur
  3. Battle of Amritsar (1634)
  4. Battle of Lahira
  5. Battle of Bhangani
  6. Battle of Nadaun
  7. Battle of Guler (1696)
  8. Battle of Basoli
  9. First Battle of Anandpur
  10. Battle of Nirmohgarh (1702)
  11. Second Battle of Anandpur
  12. Second Battle of Chamkaur (1704)
  13. Battle of Muktsar
  14. Battle of Sonepat
  15. Battle of Ambala
  16. Battle of Samana
  17. Battle of Chappar Chiri
  18. Battle of Sadhaura
  19. Battle of Rahon (1710)
  20. Battle of Lohgarh
  21. Battle of Jammu
  22. Battle of Jalalabad (1710)
  23. Siege of Gurdaspur or Battle of Gurdas Nangal
  24. Battle of Manupur (1748)
  25. Battle of Amritsar (1757)
  26. Battle of Lahore (1759)
  27. Battle of Sialkot (1761)
  28. Battle of Gujranwala (1761)
  29. Sikh Occupation of Lahore[46]
  30. Sikh holocaust of 1762 or Battle of Kup
  31. Battle of Harnaulgarh
  32. Battle of Amritsar (1767)
  33. Battle of Sialkot (1763)
  34. Battle of Sirhind (1764)
  35. Battle of Delhi (1783)
  36. Battle of Amritsar(1797)
  37. Gurkha-Sikh War
  38. Battles of Sialkot
  39. Battle of Jammu (1808)
  40. Battle of Attock
  41. Battle of Multan
  42. Battle of Shopian
  43. Battle of Balakot
  44. Battle of Peshawar (1834)
  45. Battle of Jamrud
  46. Sino-Sikh War
  47. Battle of Mudki
  48. Battle of Ferozeshah
  49. Battle of Baddowal
  50. Battle of Aliwal
  51. Battle of Sobraon
  52. Battle of Chillianwala
  53. Battle of Ramnagar
  54. Siege of Multan (1772)
  55. Battle of Gujrat

See also

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Bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Panjgarhia misl was further divided into the Sham Singh and Kalsias. The Kalsias were subdivided into the Landpindian and Barapindian.[24]
  2. ^ The owners of larger villages were required to erect stockades and ditches while the owners of towns erected either keeps or forts.[38]

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