Rattan Chand's Temple [Lahore].

Rattan Chand's Temple [Lahore].



Jan 18, 2015 - T.V. French, who was later to be the Bishop of Lahore. ... Article continues after ad ... Rattan Chand has always fascinated me as a person, and it was not without reason that Maharajah Ranjit Singh took a liking for him and ... Inside he built a huge tank and a beautiful temple with a huge dome in the middle.Till the conquest of. Lahore in 1799, Ranjit Singh had no experience of the intricate art of ... Rattan Chand Duggal , Rattan Chand Darhiwala and Shanker Das. Earlier the ... were fixed on all articles without making distinction between articles of luxury and ... Kohinoor diamond to the Hindu temple of Jagan Nath. Beli Ram ...Photograph of a small shrine at Haripur, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1860s. ... Photograph of the temple of Rattan Chand at Lahore, Pakistan, taken by George ... 18 Oct 2016 Article/Essay .Lahore is the capital of Punjab, the most populous and province of Pakistan. It has a rich cosmopolitan history and was the principal city of the vast plain of the entire Punjab region for many centuries, and was the capital of the Sikh empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh until the mid-1850s when it was conquered by the British. Before the partition of British India in 1947, Lahore had a large Hindu, Sikh and Jain population. In 1941, 64.5% of the population of Lahore was Muslim, while about 36% was Hindu or Sikh.[2] At that time, the city contained numerous Hindu temples, Jain temples, and Sikh gurdwaras. The overwhelming majority of Lahore and West Punjab's non-Christian minority population fled to India at Partition, while East Punjab was similarly depopulated of almost its entire Muslim population. For example, on the eve of Partition, Amritsar was about 49% Muslim, whereas in the 1951 census, the figure had dropped to only 0.52%,[3][4] while Ludhiana was 63% Muslim prior to Partition, but 97% Hindu and Sikh in the 1961 census.[5] As a result of religious demographic changes and political tensions, almost all Hindu and Jain temples have been abandoned in Lahore, although several important Sikh shrines continue to operate.#fasitlinks.com
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