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Malik Dilasa Khan
| Malik Dilasa Khan | |
|---|---|
| Ghazi | |
| File:A Pashtun Cavalryman.jpg | |
| Reign | 1823—1845 |
| Born | Dilasa Khan 1777 Bannu, Peshawar Province, Durrani Empire (Present day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan) |
| Died | Bannu District, North-West Frontier Province, British India (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) |
| Father | Khattak Khan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Malik Dilasa Khan (Pashto,Urdu: دلاسه خان) was a Military chief and Warrior from Bannu.[1][2] Whose name was a terror to the Sikh.[3] Khan was known as the famous warlord against the Sikh Empire (Khalsa Army) and Britishers.[4][5]
Initial Life[edit]
In 1777 A.D., Malik Dilasa Khan was born in Khattak Khan's home. His great-grandfather was Ghazi Khan, and his grandpa was Alam Khan. Malik Dilasa Khan's ancestor, Malik Daud Shah, descended from Suranaey son of Shitak in the third generation. Dilasa Khan was a resident of Daud Shah village.[6] Malik Dilasa Khan rose to prominence because to his tireless campaign against the Sikhs, and throughout Shitak history, his name is revered and honored greatly.[7][8]
Military Career[edit]
Ranjit Singh started working on his proposal to integrate Bannu into the Sikh dominion in 1822. Ranjit Singh occasionally attacked the Bannuchi walled villages. The Sikhs marched through Isa Khel and Marwat unopposed in 1823 before pushing on to the outskirts of Bannu.[9] The Sikh army invaded Bannu nine times between 1823 and 1845. A sizable Sikh army that the commander of the Khalsa force used to accompany would never enter the valleys unafraid. Although it frequently succeeded in extracting a sizable profit from them, it never left without first suffering a significant defeat at the hands of some tenacious insurgents.[10]no ono was more hostile to the Sikhs than Dilasa Khan of Bannu.[11][12]
Shah Shuja Saddozai, the grandson of Ahmad Shah Abdali, made a tripartite pact with Ranjit Singh and the British government in June 1838. Shah Shuja granted the Sikhs control over the Trans-Indus region (including Bannu) under article I of this pact.[13] Ranjit Singh wasted no time in making an effort to colonize this new area. The Bannuchis were asked for one lakh rupees in tribute by Ranjit Singh. He had encountered little resistance elsewhere in the area, but in the Bannu valley he was forced, after numerous attempts, to retreat and use the strategy of his forefathers, contenting himself with the regular dispatch of a force to wreak havoc on the nation and take whatever booty could be obtained.[14][15]
Dilasa Khan also defeated Sikh empire in the Battle of Bannu. [16][17][18]
References[edit]
- ↑ Journal. 1843. p. 593.
- ↑ Gupta, Hari Ram (1939). History of the Sikhs: Trans-Sutlej Sikhs, 1769-1799. S.N. Sarkar. p. 67.
- ↑ Chopra, Gulshan Lall (1940). Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab. Government Printing. p. 200.
- ↑ Rashid, Haroon (2008). History of the Pathans: The Ghurghushti, Beitani and Matti tribes of Pathans. Haroon Rashid. p. 436.
- ↑ Husain, Muhammad (1955). East Pakistan: A Cultural Survey. Karachi. p. 53.
- ↑ Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association. Asia Publishing Company. 1938. p. 362.
- ↑ Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association. Asia Publishing Company. 1938. p. 362.
- ↑ Singh, Ganda (1952). The Punjab in 1834-40: Selections from the Punjab Akhbars, Punjab Intelligence, Etc., Preserved in the National Archives of India. Sikh History Society. p. 189.
- ↑ Thorburn, Septimus Smet (1879). Report on the First Regular Land Revenue Settlement of the Bannu District in the Derajat Division of the Punjab. Central Jail Press. p. 22.
- ↑ Thorburn, Septimus Smet (1879). Report on the First Regular Land Revenue Settlement of the Bannu District in the Derajat Division of the Punjab. Central Jail Press. p. 22.
- ↑ Griffin, Sir Lepel Henry (1993). The Punjab Chiefs. Sang-e-Meel. p. 309. ISBN 978-969-35-0303-6.
- ↑ Sen, N. B. (1943). Punjab's Eminent Hindus, Being Biographical and Analytical Sketches of Twenty Hindu Ministers, Judges, Politicians. New book society. p. 83.
- ↑ Adamec, Ludwig W. (2010-04-07). The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies. Scarecrow Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-4617-3189-4.
- ↑ Quddus, Syed Abdul (1987). The Pathans. Ferozsons. p. 93. ISBN 978-969-0-00681-3.
- ↑ Sen, N. B. (1944). Punjab's Eminent Hindus: Being Biographical Sketches of Twenty Hindu Ministers, Judges, Politicians, Educationists & Legislators of the Punjab--both Living and Dead--by Some Well-known Writers of this Province. New Book Society. p. 174.
- ↑ Griffin, Sir Lepel Henry (1890). The Panjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab. Civil and Military Gazette Press. p. 292.
- ↑ Punjab Revisited: An Anthology of 70 Research Documents on the History and Culture of Undivided Punjab. Gautam Publishers. 1995. p. 345.
- ↑ Saggar, Balraj (1993). Who's who in the History of Punjab, 1800-1849. National Book Organisation. p. 142. ISBN 978-81-85135-60-1.