Diwan Mulraj
Governor of Multan whose revolt in April 1848, after two British officers were killed in the city, began the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
Mulraj was born in 1814, the son of Diwan Sawan Mal, and succeeded his father as governor of Multan in 1844.
After the first war, the British-controlled Lahore government demanded heavy payments from him. In 1848 he offered to resign, and two British officers, Vans Agnew and Anderson, came to Multan to take over. On 20 April 1848 they were attacked by Mulraj's soldiers and killed, possibly without his orders. Mulraj then raised the standard of revolt.
The British besieged Multan for nine months. The revolt spread, became the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and ended with the annexation of the Punjab. Mulraj surrendered in January 1849, was tried and sentenced to death, commuted to exile, and died in 1851 on his way to it.
