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After about four months Pir Muhammad Chattha surrendered and Rasulnagar passed to Mahan Singh.
01The Zamzama and the Chatthas
Rasulnagar stood on the east bank of the Chenab and belonged to the Chatthas, a Muslim Jat clan who had long fought the Sukerchakias. The huge bronze gun cast at Lahore in Ahmad Shah Abdali’s time, the Zamzama, had ended up in their hands; accounts differ on whether they seized it or the Bhangis left it with them. Mahan Singh claimed it for the Khalsa and, with Jai Singh Kanhaiya’s help, laid siege to the town early in 1778.
02Four months and a surrender
The Chatthas held out for about four months while the Sikhs stripped the countryside around the town. At last Pir Muhammad surrendered. Mahan Singh renamed the place Ramnagar, the name it still bears; the Sikh and British armies fought there again in 1848. The success brought other Punjabi chiefs over to Mahan Singh and made the Sukerchakias a power on the Chenab, the base from which his son Ranjit Singh would take Lahore in 1799.
Rasulnagar made the Sukerchakia Misl, the house of Ranjit Singh, a leading power in western Punjab.
