Could Ranjeet Singh's statue in Lahore be torn down like the statues of tyrants in the West?

[namefield_empty]

Lol, Ranjeet Singh is perhaps one of the very few bhumiputra figures along a long cohort of their nondescript historical timeline that the nascent Pakistani nation-state can call their own, and they are bent on erasing his presence.

Very well then find a way to install Xinping's bust in the near future!!

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Lol, Ranjeet Singh is perhaps one of the very few bhumiputra figure along a long cohort of historical timeline that the nascent Pakistani nation-state can call their own, and they are bent on erasing his presence.

Very well then find a way to install Xinping's bust in the near future!!

Waiting for Bangladeshis to make Assam Muslim Majority

 

[TheGreatMaratha]

The most obvious reason may well simply be that Jinnah was smart enough to avoid jail. I don't really know the reality, but this is idle speculation anyway that is irrelevant to our discussion on Gandhi.

I was pointing to your own hypocrisy.

 

[namefield_empty]

Waiting for Bangladeshis to make Assam Muslim Majority

Ok, i hope you will accompany them personally. Will have gahori prepared especially for you..

 

[El Sidd]

You're good at this! One day when you have the time, you must also reduce me to a witty one-liner character summary, embedded in one of your posts about some serious topic.

you should have known what your right hand possessed and took responsibility for it.

you didn't.

rest is history

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Ok, i hope you will accompany them personally. Will have gahori prepared especially for you..

Can we have Halaal Beef?

 

[El Sidd]

Ok, i hope you will accompany them personally. Will have gahori prepared especially for you..

How are the Bangladeshi bandits doing buddy? Any tiger sighting to report?

 

[masterchief_mirza]

I was pointing to your own hypocrisy.

What hypocrisy?

 

[namefield_empty]

Can we have Halaal Beef?

No chance, we can offer you gahori Afgani kebabs and biriyani though? Chalega?

How are the Bangladeshi bandits doing buddy? Any tiger sighting to report?

Few of them ganged up on one of our own recently, ghastly sight, people are peeved. Hope you are well too!

 

[Pakistani E]

Not sure why some Pakistanis like worshipping Ranjit Singh and the era of Sikh Rule. If they studied history, they'd know that large number of Punjabi Muslims lost their lands to them and were continually religiously oppressed until the conquest of Punjab by the British.

This whole statue is a stupid idea.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Any television show or movie made on the great secular ruler, either by India or Pakistan? @TheGreatMaratha @Jackdaws @jamahir @Indus Pakistan @GHALIB

- PRTP GWD

 

[Crusher]

Not sure why some Pakistanis like worshipping Ranjit Singh and the era of Sikh Rule. If they studied history, they'd know that large number of Punjabi Muslims lost their lands to them and were continually religiously oppressed until the conquest of Punjab by the British.

This whole statue is a stupid idea.

My current understanding of Sikh rule is that it turned old winners into losers and old losers into new winners. Before Sikhs rise all the agricultural lands belonged to the muslim rulers of Punjab but after the rise of Sikhs and Ranjeet Singh the land ownership moved to "certain castes" who were the main beneficiaries of that Ranjeet singh led "collapse" of Muslim Mughal/Pashtun rulers, so off course for them Ranjeet singh is "mai baap" and they have learned the stories of only his praise from their ancestors. That is what has happened here. Remember every so-called "collapse" of established kingdoms usurps the social hierarchies and turns the older winners into new losers and many of the old losers into new winners. That is why Amir Timur, Ahmed Shah Abdali and Mughals are all "villains" for them but the tyrant Ranjeet Singh is their hero, everyone can smell the stink of their caste based BS.

 

[fitpOsitive]

This one,

He was a tyrant who made the lives of the Muslim populations of Punjab, Kashmir and modern KPK miserable but his statue was placed in Lahore a couple of years ago by the self-hating "ham bahasiat qaum munafiq hain" brigade in Lahore. So now as we are living in the age of tearing down statutes of tyrants from the past in the wake of current global campaign against the statues of the past racists and tyrants, is it possible that the statue of this tyrant could also meet the same fate. You comments please?

We can simply ignore it. There are many Pakistanis who love him. So, just live with it.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

We can simply ignore it. There are many Pakistanis who love him. So, just live with it.

Did his empire include Karnal?

- PRTP GWD

 

[fitpOsitive]

Did his empire include Karnal?

- PRTP GWD

No. Jaats and Rajputs told him to be in his skin.