![]() Hari Singh got the ‘Nalwa’ title attached to his name after he reportedly killed a tiger at a very young age. His father Gurdial Singh died when he was just seven in 1798 and his maternal uncle raised him. Hari Singh was born in 1791 in an Uppal family in Gujranwala (now in Pakistan). Why was he called Nalwa despite having been born in an Uppal family? Newsletter | Click to get the day’s best explainers in your inbox This, in turn, could have led to more Afghan incursions into Punjab and Delhi. Historians maintain that if Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his commander Nalwa would have not taken control of Peshawar and the northwest frontier, which is part of Pakistan now, then these areas could have been part of Afghanistan. Nalwa, who was in Peshawar at that time, marched towards Jamrud to save the Sikh army which was surrounded by Dost Mohammad’s troops. In that battle, Dost Muhammad Khan along with his five sons participated fought against the Sikh army, which only had around 600 men and limited supplies. The battle of Jamrud proved to be the final battle for Nalwa. Nalwa, thereafter, remained stationed in Peshawar to keep an eye on the Afghan-Punjab border,” he said. And they also created a huge fear of Nalwa among the Afghans. ![]() “These victories expanded the Sikh empire. Moreover, Nalwa took control over Jamrud in 1837, a fort at the entryway to Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass.”ĭr Kapoor, who is also the former registrar of DAV University and currently the director of Hindu Kanya College of Kapurthala, added that the Afghans were also defeated in the battles fought in Multan, Hazara, Manekera and Kashmir. In 1818, a Sikh army under Nalwa won the battle of Peshawar. ![]() This was the first major victory of the Sikhs over the Durrani Pathans. Then in the battle of Attock in 1813, Nalwa along with other commanders won against Azim Khan and his brother Dost Mohammad Khan, who fought on behalf of Shah Mahmud of Kabul. “For instance, in 1807, at the age of 16, Nalwa fought the battle of Kasur (which is now in Pakistan) and defeated Afghani ruler Kutab-ud-din Khan. ![]()
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