You make me Sikh! A Punjabi AAr

[TheFlemishDuck]

You make me Sikh! A Punjabi AAr (vip 0.4)

You make me Sikh! A Punjabi AAr​

Maharaja!

Maharaja!

Maharaja!

sigh..

Maharaja!

Huh? Maharadja Ranjit Singh abruptly rose up in his comfty throne from a sweet nap ,straithend his back ,looked strait forward.Noone there except from some guards at the gate ,he looked to his side.

Guru ,it's you! Why do you abrupt me from my nap now ,i was just dreaming some good stuff ,of harem's in the orient and such ,though it looked distinclty like my palace in Amritasar anyway.

Maharadja! The guru abrupted him ,the guru could do that ,he was cool. Maharadja ,i had a vision ,an important one this time!

Not some bullshit like 7 fat and poor cows crawling out of some river ,or some "world war 3" around like 200 years from now?I could care less about such irrelivant visions...

I saw ... An Octopus ,and ... a dolphin ,and like so much fish....

Afcourse you stayed of the whakey tobacy.... the Maharadja abrupted and stared somewhat uninterrested in the air.

Maharadja ,did anyone ever had a vision withought some stuff? Now listen ,this is important.

The Dolphin was swimming after some fish ,then the evil octupus came ,he was to slow to grab the fish faster than the dolphin ,so he tried to whip it's tentacle's at the dolphin ,and spray oil at it's head and fins to blind it or suffocate it.But the dolphin was fast and agile ,and it could dodge the oil ,and the tentacle's multiple times.But then the fish got closer to the octopus ,and the dolphin was forced to go ramming speed towards the octupus ,they came close ,and closer ,collision imminent ,and...

You were awaken by 5 turban wearing Khalsa's playing new age drum music? The Maharadja guessed.

How did you know?

Anyway ,the maharadja continued ,looks ok ,being a bad funky octupus ,ambushing lame overated dolphin's with oil and whip's ,kinda kinky ,and to ram it at the end ... ,so ,who is the Dolphin... ,and the fish?

Euh ,Maharadja ,the dolphin is us! The doplhin is a noble and wise animal Maharadja ,deffinatly more admirably than some clumsy octupus.Besides it has a cute nose and it giggles ,it swims along ships with people and makes jolly tricks ,and helps poor fishers in dire needs.

Help fishers? You must be joking ,dumb dolphin's get stuck into nets all the time ,a menance to profit at sea.I bet if you drop 1000 fishers 200 kilometers into the indian ocean not one returns saddled riding a dolphin to safety of land.It's face looks Mongolian ,it scares away fish when they jump all jolly around ships.

Maharadja ,this must not be discussed ,i as national expert and representative on visions ,religion ,natural phenonema ,partying and other weird stuff in this country and if i say that the Dolphin is the more hounerable animal than it is.Anyway ,the point is ,Maharadja ,that you deserve the fish ,but that damn Octupus is bugging you ,and you once have to collide ,you better eat a lot of fish so you stand strong.

Ok ,ok ,ill eat some more bloody fish ,the Maharadja replied ,and sent the guru back to his temple.
Nevertheless the Maharadja took the advice of the Guru in his head ,the guru DID have powers! He was kinda cool and funky but not easily to read.
So the maharadja would eat more fish ,but then he saw he had no coastline to get fish from.THE DOPLHIN WAS LANDLOCKED! OMG! (Oh my Guru)

So early 1836 the Maharadja saw it wise to go invade Sind ,as to get some damn sea and fish.Quickly ,mobilize the Khalsa before we starve!

Attacking Sind was a nessecity:

And it went kinda fast to ,thx to the Maharaja who was such a talented general ,in short ,we went south capturing the 2 province's up to Karachi ,wich was the hardest objective as it was a mountainious region ,and the rest was just defeating the Sind army in their only leftover province ,really that easy ,some time later ,Sind is annexed.

And so the Dolphin had fish again ,atleast for a while ,but will this satisfy its needs endlesly? See it next in part 2 of "you make me Sikh!".

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notes:

Played in Vip 0.4

I cheated with a "leadership" to get Maharaja ranjit Singh as leader emmediatly.Given the person he is and the fact that he was at the head of the realm then ,this is somewhat logical anyway.

And about generals concerned ,i edited their conversion needs so that they don't need luxury furnituure ,otherwise i wouldn't be able to get leaders probably before the 60's.

i'm not all about cheating ,ill note it when i changed something ,for the rest no cheating unless good reason ,same with reloads.

 

[unmerged(23888)]

Looks good. I'll be watching!

 

[unmerged(38850)]

About time there was a Panjab AAR. Show those Brits a lesson
Ill be watching

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

With Sind out of the way ,the time had arrived for a little party ,as usual held by Guru Granth Sahib ji ,the tenth and final Guru of the Sikh as it was known he would live forever.Scene of the party was the holy tank ,Amritsar ,a cool place for a hot day ,with multiple pools for partying.Woman with a red dot on their heads were shaking weird with their hands and their bottom ,singing with very high voice ,men with turband were leading with their drum beats ,prominent people of the court of Ranjit singh ,sikh's ,other punjabi's and European men in Ranjit's service ,were socializing while drinking long drinks.Once and awhile ,some giraffe ,Elephant or Zebra ran trough the crowd ,entertaining them somewhat until they realised Zebra's ate half of the menu ,but by then usually they were to drunk to care anyway.The whole scene was one of immense collerfullness ,almost kitchy ,typical eastern colourfull silk clothing ,mixed with few European style dresses or costumes ,or an Arab with a long curled dagger.It was the scene infact of endless intrigue ,political machinations ,and a whole lot of strong big fully bearded men with bad motives.

The holy tank at Amritsar ,the golden walls were a gift of the maharaja to the Khalsa.

It took a man a like Ranjit to actually hold this whole bunch toghether for his ambitions ,wich were something alike "more ,more ,more!" .Deffinatly ,he ,the lion of Punjab himself ,was what this country was about.He created it from virtually nothing ,and made it a regional multicultural power.He was the respect ,the person ,the fabric that held this country toghether.

Ranjit Sing in his older days.

But though ,Ranjit was an old man ,his reign wouldn't last that long anymore ,and his oldest son ,Kharak Sing ,was nothing his father had ever hoped him to be ,being one of the principal consumers of British India produced opium ,he was not only a failure ,but also a source of trade deficit.If any son of ranjit would be a good candidat ,then it would have been Sher Singh afcourse ,his younger ,more intellectual ,and more millitary active son.Kharak Sing could count on some support within the court ,it had been said even that he had contacts with the Brits ,while Sher Singh ,respected by the army's that he commanded ,could count on a lot of support within the army ,in the end logicly it tipped the scale somewhat more towards Sher Singh ,and it was for that reason that Ranjit Sing had made Kharak Sing minister of sanitation early on ,although even at that he was crappy.

Rumours ,ah rumours ,a comman sight in such party scene's ,the rumour of the day was ,infact ,something concerning Afhanistan.It was said that Afhanistan was thinking about getting Peshawar back from us who fairly captured it.It was nothing new ,however ,some punjabi in fact had received a bunchload of finances as acting negotiator for a deal between Brittish India and Afhanistan ,where the Brits would support Afhanistan in their claim.it was not for soon ,rather for when Ranjit had died ,where additional funds for completing the deal might grant some person some power in Punjab.Ranjit Sing was brainstorming a bit about the idea of such a rumour ,while inccidently looking at kharak Sing's new outfit ,more diamonds that silk really.

No ,you will never let kharak wear Koh-i-noor be as a clothing garnement will you?

Huh? Ranjit looked around ,must have been the Guru he thought.

Yes it's me Ranjit ,now listen ,even lions don't crawl forever ,and a stinkey Hyena eating his corpse is a shame.,beware the Salmon ,he might attack you in order of the Octupus ,as the Salmon is is scared of the Bear.This ,the Hyena hopes.

Hmm ......... cryptic ,as usaul ,youre hard to read man.I havnt hot the fainest Idea what a salmon even is but i think ill just attack Afhanistan as usual.

Koh-i-noor ,it took a lot of effort to get it in the first place.

So ranjit Spend a year or so creating a few new mounted devissions ,and spend some money holding party's to attract foreign generals with talent.Afhanistan would never resist his Jominian attitude of working ,whatever that was.The Khalsa army was something of a host attritioning the enemy ,a prelude to guerilla warfare untill the final blood had to be shed.For punjab was a realm of freedom and opportunity ,it attracted many capable men.

Well these guys sure are welcome!

And in early 1839 ,as a final statement of his lifelong nature ,he declared war again on Afhanistan ,for maybe the tenth time in his life. Excactly day later he died ,the lion of punjab was no more.

Time was of essence now for Sher Sing ,as kharak had already proclaimed himself new Mahraja ,crackpot as he was ,even recognizing his deal with british India for Peshawar ,treason.To do that ,knowing that Sher Sing would react ,and that he just left Lahore one day ago by consent of Ranjit at the head of the whole Khalsa army ,wich recognized Sher Singh as the next ruler ,the idiot.So as the Khalsa just took a detour to the Afhani front ,Kharak had no choice but to flee to the Brits ,where he would become a costly attraction at the Brittish court.

Oh yes ,there was a war to be fought.Well no problem for the intelligent Sher Singh ,accompanied by brilliant commanders ,leading one of the best army's of the region.Loses were rediculously low ,the Afhans were overrun in time.It was the Punjabi talent for logistics ,to not lose men to nothing along the road ,even in the dreaded places of Afhanistan.Losses only were gotten in combat ,even then they were minimal.The only minor point at this war was the time it took ,but this was not the fastest region to get an army trough.

The only bit of action there.

The predicted result by most bookmakers.

Here the new Punjab started ,it was no longer the country of Ranjit Singh ,it was the enlarged punjab of Sher Sing ,the new kid on the block ,currently known as the wilderbeast of Punjab nbut with recent achievements that would change.

Maharaja Sher Singh ,after the annexation of Afhanistan.

 

[tyrel68]

I'll be watching this cloesly as well! It's great to actually see my chain in action.

The biggest switch in VIP.4b is that the Brits react and declare war if you civilize. That was really, the only thing that I thought needed to be address.

 

[unmerged(21523)]

This looks interesting indeed, an AAR on the Sikhs. I'll be watching.

 

[billy bob]

YEah Punjab makes me sikh too . And Good jon

 

[LordScod]

Not many AAR's on Punjab, that makes this more interesting.

Good work.

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

Maharaja Sher Sing knew more about women than financial administration ,it was the reason why he chose his career in the millitary with much ambition.Although a Khalsa Sikh himself ,there were some ways about sikhism that he was not so very fond of ,one was the mandatory "no shaving of any bodily hairs" rule ,he did not hate his bodily hairs ,but he wondered why that really had to apply to sikh women to.Another thing was the no use of alcohol rule,now drugs he could understand ,but on the move with the lads in war a bit of alcohol was a nessecity ,so when Sher Singh created new troops ,dragoons with guards ,and infantry with guards ,he had no choice than to equip them with fancy clothes ,liquor and other thing's that wern't realy sikh.

This was also noticed by the nitpickers congregation at the Akal Takht ,an ancient Sikh establishment established to maintain Sikh ways.They proclaimed that drinking alcohol didn't make you Sikh ,and that Sher Singh was in violation with Sikh code ,he had to explain himself to the assembly of Akal Takht.Sher Singh was not so foolish to take risks with these important religious matters ,while Panjab was a secular state Sher Sing drew most of his millitary power from the Sikh establishment.

Dont challenge Sikh jurisprudence ,or you might find youreself being a migrant night shop worker sooner than you think.

And Sher Singh had enemy's ,outside enemy's ,and inside enemy's that would invite the real enemy in for his own ambittion.Ranjit Singh did leave a small family behind him ,and some of his family members were not to be trusted.On the other hand ,Sher Sing was somwhat less leniet with freedom than his father ,and he started to work on a millitary apparatus around him where he could rely on.Important generals of the Afhan war ,his trustworthy cousing Dhawan Sing ,the brilliant Libanese Arab Mr Sara ,and the resourcefull General Narayan ,a Tamil born in Singapore ,were promoted in society by the Maharaja ,while others he could not fully trust on were disposed.

Sher Sing ,while appointing his newly ,to Sikhism converted generals ,into strengtfull positions.(Sher Shingh at the utmost left of the picture)

A strange act by the Maharaja ,around this time he made goverment reforms in the country ,suddently proclaiming voting rights for the people.He was not a frequent alcohol user ,but when he used he knew few limits.One day however after the action ,the Maharaja already changed his mind again ,so Punjab had gone from Monarchy ,to Const. Monarch ,back to normal Monarchy again.it actually costed money and it seemed all for nothing ,but accidently ,it DID increase relations with all normal monarchy's on earth ,that might come in handy one day ,maybe....

Yet it was to show that not anyone did agree with the rule of Sher Singh ,wich would be shown by a failed assasination attempt in 1842 ,wich led to more family purges and exodus to England ,a matter of sepperating the good of the rotten ,atleast in Sher Singh's vision.yet it was a somewhat socially troubled time ,atleast at the court ,where party's became real knife dodging contests.

Eventually ,Sher Sing had to draw attention to other thing's ,with a firm grip in power but a name to still make ,he began making plans for the enlagement of his territory ,thinking that more territory would grant him more power ,momst importantly a vacation out for him ,a chance to make his name somewhat more known and respected ,atleast feared ,to lift the spirits at home ,and to get to know some new legs ,hopefully shaved ones.Target had to be something good ,not to hard ,but neither to much of a pushover or it would gain little prestige for the Maharaja.

So early 1846 ,after having deployed his newest formations at the Afhan border ,Maharaja Ranjit Sing send diplomatic envoy's to Teheran to formally declare war.

He did not wait for the answer neither ,as soon as the envoy was send Punjabi cavalery and infantry were crossing the borders.Blessed with excelent leaders ,able in securing food supplies and medicine under the most rediculous circumstances ,the maharaja only eexpected to lose some troops in a few confrontations with the rather small regulatr army of Persia ,small atleast compared to punjab's millitary strenght at this point ,roughly 200.000 punjabi's fought in the Persian campaign against little more than 50.000 Persian regulars and much more irregulars that spawned after we rolled over it's home.The only real challenge of the Persia war was the size of the country ,and thus ininvitably the amount of time it would take to get it all under control.

Sikh Cavalery Riding trough Persia in search for foe's.

Initial progress was very fast ,room to cover yet ,and no persian regulars in Sight. Only only a year later ,while Pujab had already taken a good chunk of the east side of Persia virtually unopposed ,the Persian regulars began to arrive from the west ,heading to Southeast in group.

Having heard news of this Persian army arrival from scouts and Persian rebels ,the maharaja soon made the order for roughly half his army to go south and encircle-destroy the persian regular army.That persian army would be trapped ,and killed ,about 6 month's later near the coast and border of Kalat ,were the persian army was bloodily chased into the sea.

picture:With the vacuum created ,all that was left to do now was to take the time to besiege it all ,and kill revolters on sight ,for that some cavalery in the back was always dandy.

Picture:Always guard youre behind.

Picture:slow but gradual progress

edit: it seems most of the Persian campaign picture's are lost ,and i havn't got a backup of em i think ,sorry about that.

Litteraly ,owned.

In all the Persian campaign took us about 4 years ,but once the Persian army had been defeated the outcome of the war hadn't been in doubt anymore.With all province's controlled ,panjab annexed persia in 1850 ,but ,although it would make Sher Sing more prestigious ,it wouldn't make him that much more loved ,but that is more something for the next update of: "You make me Sikh;: a punjabi AAR".

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notes:

Thx to all people replying ,illl try to feed the AAr with updates regulary.

Especially thx. btw to the Vip team and Tyrel68 for the many nice alterations and for the help with some minor glitches.i'm certainly enjoying this punjab game so far.

 

[tyrel68]

Especially thx. btw to the Vip team and Tyrel68 for the many nice alterations and for the help with some minor glitches.i'm certainly enjoying this punjab game so far.

Thank you for the appreciation . It took a lot of effort to forge the chain of events and it also took a lot of effort to stop the VIP team from recycling the MUG tag

 

[unmerged(21523)]

Wow, the conquest of Persia. It appears the sky's the limit for the ever-resourceful Sikhs!

 

[tyrel68]

Wow, the conquest of Persia. It appears the sky's the limit for the ever-resourceful Sikhs!

A small tweak that has been proposed is slapping GOI's in certain politically charged areas.

This means this AFG annexation could have enacted the wrath of RUS or ENG. This would vastly change the outcome of any scenario but who knows . I also may have to add in some more good events as the chain may be too negative after the GOI's are added.

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

Maharaja Sher Singh was not that overall jubilent about his new subjects in former Persia ,they didn't see the Maharaja as the liberator that he claimed to be ,neither did his policy of religious freedom appease them much ,for the maharaja such resentment was not much of a problem ,the bigger problem was that these Persian farmers were quite poor ,to poor to support the costs of maintaining an army there to periodicly burn and pillage some village ,a matter of showing whos the boss.

It was a prestigious landgrab though ,many country's ,even in the west ,were quite impressed by our feat ,if not allarmed.Sher Singh gained much addorers but also enemy's ,for many he was a bad agressor ,a tirant ,others saw in him the quality's of a great leader ,atleast a strong and firm one ,atleast when he stayed of the wodka...

(note ,roughly 50 badboy after persia's annexation,oops lol )

Wodka yes ,we made new friends ,new ... Russian friends ,well we had a substantial relation boost already 5 years ago with the maharaja's "one day democracy act" ,now Russia was both concerned about Panjab ,and willing to cooperate.Russia was seeking a naval port in the Indian ocean ,for it would greatly increase it's influence in the southern asian region.First they had plans for the asian minors ,to work down trough Afhanistan from the steppe people to kalat or Sind ,this option was not available anymore however ,and now persia was under Punjabi control to ,there seemed no good option anymore rather than to attack Punjab possibly as agressor in the region and obstacle for Russian imperialism ,on the other hand this was logisticly unfeasable ,as well as geostrategicly ,as taking out Punjab would deffintly make Brittish influence in the region much stronger.

Neither did punjab had much use to Persia ,as said before ,but for Russia it had way more value.After considerable negotiations Russian and Punjabi diplomats came to a agreement for the sale of most of Persia to russia for the handsome kickback of roughly 250.000£ and a package of industrial technology.

In this proces of extensive dimplomatic talks ,Sotho ,some Forgotten hole in Africa offered us a techdeal ,we didn't even know they had tech in the first place.

Ah what the heck...

When the agreements between Russia and Punjab were concluded ,Maharaja Sher Singh decided to return the leftover lands of Persia to a puppet of his court ,married with a Persian princess ,they were to cotroll a small buffer state between Russia and its friend Punjab.

Punjab and around after the sales ,note our funds and prestige ,and btw ,our diplomats had to count to.

With substantial funds available ,as well as technoligy ,Maharaja Sher Singh declared it was time to go beserk in shopping over the european markets for goods ,weapons or resources ,to fuel a modernizing and millitary growing power ,it was time to enter the world of strong and civilized country's soon enough ,even if literacy was at a fullblown 1% ,factory's were erected ,farmers were given all sorts of cool stuff that they don't need anyhow ,or even leggaly consume ,but if it get them to work in the factory's it was worth it.That the factory's were making debts one day onto the other was no concern ,Sher Singh looked at it as more of a welfare institution than an industrial develoment program.Meanwhile the training grounds in Kashmir ,the favourite training place of the Khalsa army ,were filled with new rough recruits ,mostly gathered from the harch mountainous regions along the Himalaya.Men with beards ,big beards ,a turband ,and a knife ,a big knife ,arms like cranes ,and a cheast like it was choped out of marble.They were given quality training ,they were supposed to be quality troops ,mounted guard dragoons ,trained for mobilety and firepower ,new officers were trained to ,all this with the substantial funds gotten of the sale of Persia ,funds that were dwindling faster than expected.

It was a mainly peacefull period ,a good breath of tranquility for the Punjabi's who had been at almost constant warfare in the last century.it was a time of much optimism ,the evolution and modernization of panjab was visible ,though slowly ,but people felt things were finaly moving forward ,that this region was moving out of feodality into a modern state.However for the maharaja it was a waste of time ,a nessecary formality ,buildup for the next clash.

And it was so ,that in the spring of 1854 ,4 years after the sale of Persia ,Punjab thought itself powerfull enough for the next clash ,Punjab declared a colonial war on Rajputana ,with this automaticly forcing Brittish India to declare a clonial war on Punjab in defense of their sattelite.

How will punjab fare in this war against brittish India?A collonial juggernaut with a 100 millitary score ,and sattelite's to give them expediotionary forces?See it in the next installment of "You make me Sikh! A Punjabi Aar!

 

[matt12th]

Amazing job, good luck on fighting British India, does this bring the British into the fight too?

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

Amazing job, good luck on fighting British India, does this bring the British into the fight too?

No ,Brittish India declares colonial war on me ,so they don't drag their allies along ,so i'm not at war with the United kingdom ,yet! Though brittish india boosts a quite numerous force ,were outnumbered atleast 2 to 1 if not 3 to 1 ,and this would increase if the UK gets into it to ,but afcourse it's not expected to see the full force against us ,well more on that later.

 

[gosam]

have you civilized before DOWing? it seems like you need just some more troops to achieve the requirments.

good stuff btw, keep up.

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

have you civilized before DOWing? it seems like you need just some more troops to achieve the requirments.

good stuff btw, keep up.

No ,i am just at almost 200 prestige ,about 10 mil and 50 industry at the moment i declare the colonial war ,but that means i might get civilized in the course of the next month ,if i civilize before declaring the colonial war ,Brittish India + UK would declare normal war on me and i wouldn't be able to invade the West Indian minor's.By declaring colonial war upfront ,i contain the war and allow myself to invade all the minor's in one war.

 

[tyrel68]

No ,i am just at almost 200 prestige ,about 10 mil and 50 industry at the moment i declare the colonial war ,but that means i might get civilized in the course of the next month ,if i civilize before declaring the colonial war ,Brittish India + UK would declare normal war on me and i wouldn't be able to invade the West Indian minor's.By declaring colonial war upfront ,i contain the war and allow myself to invade all the minor's in one war.

Ya the only reason I decided to have the BEIC react if you civilize is because people were using the mobilization pools to flood india with Punbaji's

This way you have to fight with your standing army but you definitly seem to have done very well even with this limit.

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

When we left you ,the Maharaja had declared war on Rajputjana ,and with this filthy Brittish East Indian Company had reacted by declaring war on the holy Sikh kingdom of Punjab.What for Maharaja Ranjit started as merely an operation of territorial expansion ,winded up in exactly that ,but in a way beyond the Maharaja's thoughts.

In fact ,not only Punjab ,but the whole of India had come to a crossroad in it's history.When Punjab became a civilized country exactly 2 weeks after declaring war on Rajputjana ,it effectivly send a schok trough the mindset of the India of that time ,here was 90% of India ,under the boot of some foreign devils with hellish clothes ,And yet the 10% that was left had become a contestant of size.Hope ,even nationalism ,swept trough northern India like Wildfire.
Most importantly ,Punjab by the fact that it was now a civilized nation ,was not to be attacked in it's home soil by the BeiC who effectivly declared "colonial war" on Punjab ,it shows to say that one better reads the small letters below when one sign's a decleration of war document.

It were the former ,and larger Kingdom's of the north ,with aristocracy's dating back to the Mughal period ,who were not that keen about brittish involvement anyway ,The rajput were the large majority of those along with the Avadhi indians ,they were the prominent people inhabiting the rich area around the Ganges river.The kingdoms of the North were effectivly puppets of the company ,while many elements in the Monarchy supported the brittish for own personal gain ,most of the inhabitants hated the Brittish.

It was as such ,that when Sher Sing started it's campaigns ,accompanied by older Generals ,veterans of the Persian conquest ,and young talents , against the Minor's of the North ,that really there was not that much opposition to fight against.Majority of the forces of the minor's were ,although relativly good trained and well equiped ,in somewhat small numbers and low morale ,not enough to stop An quite enlarged Khalsa army ,a fairly mobilzed army of most dragoons.And the people were on our side ,this time ,compared to Persia ,Sher Singh was acknowledged as a liberator ,although to him that didn't matter much ,and the people refused to fight on the side of their corrupt monarch's ,puppets of the redcoats.

Sikh cavalery moves out from Lahore

The Khalsa army steamed trough Rajputjana ,and did not bother to stop there ,with people rejoicing and celebrating the Sikh's as liberator's ,with the Company stopped at our borders ,The Khalsa army was ordered to march further ,into the lands of Holkhar-Sindhia and Beroda ,where more rajputs and Avadhi's lived.Again Sher Singh was welcomed as a liberator ,although they might change their mind later if they would have heard of the Maharaja's tax policy's.Resistance was futile ,the miinor's campgain did last shorter than a year althoghether.

the Khalsa steams through Rajputjana ,the Rajput puppet flees to the BeiC

In conjunction with the inavsions of the West-Northern Indian minor's ,an other front was opened against Kalat ,the minor southwest of Punjab proper.Again resistance was minimal ,and the poppulation supported our cause ,they would see annexation at about a similar time as the minor's to our east.

Punjab after the war of minor's ,expansion is fun.

With the stakes of this war well into Sikh hand ,and the Brittish East-Indian Coorperation having lost their puppet regimes in the North-West ,their was no reason anymore to continue this war ,round 1 was for the Sikh ,and now diplomats were send to the company to sign peace.it took them a while ,at first the Company didn't want to budge ,but their defiance was hollow and this war for them lost ,so after months of talks ,peace was concluded.

It was now that the inhabitants of the enlarged Sikh-Indian nation saw what was achieved ,with peace concluded punjab had now control of virtually all North-West india ,this was now a nation of strenght ,a contender of might in India.The people of India hoped for more ,and the Rajput knew there was support to gain In the Company controlled area's inhabitant by Rajput ,not the least the Ganges area with it's maginificant city Delhi as beaken of prosperity ,only cut short by high trade tarrifs of the Brits.So the Rajput nobles ,those atleast that had supported Punjab ,had been promoted in better positions in the court.Because they had convinced the Maharaja that ,if he would change the identity of this Nation ,not anymore a Punjabi-Sikh Kingdom ,But a Free Unified India ,atleast for what was already free ,that he would gain massive support all over India ,so that Gaining more strenght in India would be much more easy.

The Maharaja knew what this meant.An unified free Indian state would indeed raise support all over India ,but it would also be clear to the Brittish what was the Maharaja's goals ,for the Unified state could only be a claimant on most of India.It was so that shortly after the Maharaja had declared the Unified free states ,that the Brittish east Indian company found itself forced to react ,with a Decleration of war ,a non-collonial one ,and this time the United Kingdom joined the fun.

Time was of essence now ,the Brittish Dow had sparked a reaction among the inhabitants of the Ganges valley ,Rajput rebels were taken arms against the company all over the north.The rajput nobles had adviced the Maharaja to make a bee-line for Delhi ,as there would be a prize to be gained there.For there was the old capital of a once great empire in India ,the Mughal empire ,while it was originally founded by muslims ,in it's later period the Mughal empire had included many indian origin nobles ,some still lived in Delhi surpressed by the company in closed of palaces.they were important men ,these Mughal nobles ,from Rajput decent.They were educated ,more than any Indian ,had aquired much Knowledge of the Brittish ,partly due to being isolated and forced to do nothing more than maybe read a few books and hold some party's with what was left of their fortune.The Rajput nobles proposed a consencus ,for the people of India to accpet indian leadership.In essence the brunt of politcal power was in hands of Sikhs ,but Rajputs had had been promoted among them ,and some Rajputs effectivly baptized them at the pools of Amritsar to Sikh.But gaining the support of the Mughal nobles in Delhi would have hughe advantages ,that is if the Maharja changed his nation identity again ,right in Delhi ,in Mughalistan.it would gain the support of the Mughal nobles ,with their claims and knowledge it would be a big gain ,and the Mughal nobles could raise a lot of support among the Ganges people if let loose.But then the political structure had to change to ,the Rajput could accept that the royal family ,and at most it's advisor's and it furrther family to ,were at the helm of the nation ,but the Rajput and Mughal nobles would demand power right under them ,with substantial power over the area's that held their people.And for this ,Punjabi's would never be taken agaid of Rajput's ,unless khalsa Sikh ,the Rajput would now become the core of the nations people ,And the Khalsa army would become a part of a larger Mughal army ,not on itself an sepperate entity anymore.

This meant a lot of political maneuvering for the Maharaja ,wich was less knowledged in the subleties of politics and more into the raw power of army.Luckily the nationalist feeligns in Northern India were stronger than ever ,so the maharaja could make a little mistake.The most important thing ,atleast now ,was that he was effeciant in warfare.Wth the stakes well in mind ,the Maharaja send some of it's prime dragoons into northern India ,direction delhi.

Delhi fell ,and how ,While the Company army's had moved out to crush rebels ,the Khalsa army had mannaged to ride ,undetected ,towards Delhi.There ,the Beautifull ity lay restless ,the Mughal nobles had inticed it's poppulation to revolt ,the Brittish garison was minimal and already occupied with rebels.Still they managed to get the city closed of for the Khalsa and man the walls ,but the Khalsa was to numerous ,fiel guns breached the walls ,and with help of the rebels the garrison was slauthered to the last man.Houses ,if not palaces of rich Brittish traders ,were looted ,the traders tortured and murdered ,their wives and daughters raped and sold as slave's ,their children thrown into the Ganges.Blood was running in small strams into the city ,into the Ganges where it fouled the holy water with filthy Brittish blood.From the tall trader building's ,and their warehouses ,large packs of trade goods were dropped into the Ganges ,mainly opium.The affair itself came known as "The Delhi opium party" it was not a moment of humanity ,now the frustrations of decades of brittish colonialims shed it's punishment.

The fall of Delhi

The maharaja arrived two days later ,dressed as a Mughal emperor ,welcomed by frenzy'd poppulation.He lost no time ,married the daughter of one of the direct desendants of Aurangzeb ,last great emperor of the former Mughal Empire. Now the Climate was set ,Maharaja Sher Singh declared himself Sher I Emperor of Mughalistan.Sing was excluded of the tiltle ,to mask Sikh roots ,but the Sikhs would continue to hold prominent places in the Nation.And although mughalistan reffered ,in it's historic contect ,to mongels ,it was now an Indian nation ,ruled by Indians.Further political maneuvers were succesfull ,and the Mughal empire was restored in former glory.15 new devissions ,followers of the Rajput nobles of the Ganges ,were joined to the continetal indian army as it was now called.The Avadhi and Kanauji ,two large cultural groups of Nothern India ,wich also had gotten good positions in the former Mughalistan ,were given comparable positions in goverment as the Rajput ,although in lesser numbers ,the were given political powers over those territory's inhabitet by their people.this was a good move as these people were now fully on the side of Mughalsitan to ,and Bastar ,a nation ruled by a puppet of the Company ,but holding many Kanauji nobles ,joined with Mughalistan to after having desposed their puppet ruler ,including a number of kanauiji devissions.
Claims were pulled from the old coffers again ,now Sher I emperor of the Mughals had right to the whole North of India.The Mughal nobles spread a lot of their knowledge among Indians.For this ,a khalsa university was created at Amritsar ,to never loose the new gained knowledge for the indian elite.The army's of mughalistan were modernized ,although they wouldn't become very similar to european army's for decade's ,Mughal army's were a mix of new weaponry for infantry and old cold steel weapons for cavalery ,but among both there was always mingling ,and the Mughal infantryman ,having no bayonet ,but like Sikh's always wearing a sword ,was not afraid to go medieval if nessecary.

khalsa college ,Amritsar ,everyone with a beard is allowed ,redcoats go to entrance B plz.

Mughalistan was reborn ,the contest for India now began.France ,a farway European nation ,seeing that it could put a stick into the wheels British power ,sided with us ,and became or Allie in the West ,toghether with it's own allies Belgium and Sardinie-Piedmonte ,another nation in the formation of a unified empire.

Sher I declared Emperor of mughalistan at Delhi.

Mughalistan was restored ,made powerfull ,had firends,but now the Brits ,united against us ,were moving in ,in large numbers ,determind to destroy this new Empire while it was still in it's child-shoes.The Anglo Sikh war had begun.

Mughalistan ,shortly after it's restoration.Sher is at the command of his Sikh bodyguard corps ,in the East Bastar has joined the nation.Uk lands troops in the South ,BeiC troops surrounded in Beroda.

How will the Sikh ruled nation of Mughalistan cope? see it next in "you make me Sikh ,a .... Mughalistan AAR"

 

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Hilarious AAR. What level are you playing on, and how did you avoid a badboy war during the time your badboy was up so high?