Medieval India Test - 4

Tegh Bahadur was the second Sikh guru to be assassinated at the hands of a Aurangzeb. Almost 70 years earlier, in 1606, Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru, was killed by the banks of the river Ravi, facing the Lahore fort, on the orders of Jahangir.

The British exiled the Last Mughal Emperor from India to then Rangoon, Burma. The same goons also exiled the last Burmese King - Thibou from Mandalay, Burma to Ratnagiri, India. When Bahadur Shah Zafar died, he was hastily buried and his grave was lost and forgotten for many years.

Jaziya was abolished by the third Mughal emperor Akbar, in 1564. However, Aurangzeb, the sixth emperor, re-introduced and levied Jaziya on non-Muslims in 1679. His goal was to promote Islam and weaken the Hindu religion.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh, also called 'Sher-e-Punjab' (The Lion of the Punjab) was a Sikh emperor of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan. With his administrative qualities and excellent fighting army, he ruled over one of the largest territories in India, not at that time under British control, for almost 40 years. He extended his territory from the cities of Lahore and Amritsar to include all of Punjab between the Sutlej and Indua rivers. He had an anticipation of forming a separate Sikh state.

In 1806, Ranjit Singh faced a border dispute with the British East India Company was threatening to erupt into a full scale war. Realising that he could not afford to fight the emerging power in India, he instead entered negotiation. This incident shows that he did not pose a great challenge and resistance to the British. Hence, option 1 is the answer.