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Finally in 1798, when Zaman Shah came to Lahore, he tried to conciliate the Sikhs and to win them over to his side. This measure was successful to some extent, and many of the Sikh Chiefs, including Ranjit Singh, coming to him tendered their homage. Zaman Shah, in pursuit of his new policy, appointed Ranjit Singh as the governor of Lahore. Having thus installed the influential Sikh to power, he hastened towards Khorasan, which was then threatened by Fateh Ali Shah Kajar (1799). This, indeed, was the beginning of the Sikh rule in the Punjab, which lasted till the middle of the nineteenth century (1849).
Ranjit Singh, availing of the civil war taking place in Afghanistan, gradually subdued all the chiefs living along the Satluj. Then turning his attention to the west, he occupied the whole of the Panjab, Kashmir, and the trans-Indus districts from Peshawar to Dera Ghazi Khan.
On Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, there was all confusion, and his capital, Lahore, became the theatre of internecine quarrels, court intrigues and assassinations. In 1845, a war broke out between
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