Battle of Shopian
Brought the Kashmir valley under Sikh rule after five centuries of Muslim rule.
In 1819, five years after the failure of 1814, Ranjit Singh sent a new army into Kashmir under Misr Diwan Chand, with Hari Singh Nalwa and Prince Kharak Singh, through Rajauri and the Pir Panjal.
On 3 July 1819 the Sikhs met the Afghan governor Jabbar Khan at Shopian, at the southern end of the Kashmir valley. The first Sikh attack was beaten back, but the Akalis and Hari Singh Nalwa's men pressed on, and the Afghan army broke. Jabbar Khan fled.
Two days later the Sikhs entered Srinagar. After five centuries under Muslim rulers, Kashmir passed to the Sikh Empire. Hari Singh Nalwa later governed it and struck coins there.
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