It grew in strength and territory to cover an area from
Gujrat to
Multan and emerged as the strongest power in the western
Punjab region.[10] However, deaths among the leadership during the late 1760s reduced the Misl's power.[10] On 16 April 1765, the Bhangi sardarsGujjar Singh and Lehna Singh Kahlon, allied with
Sobha Singh of the
Kanhaiya Misl, conquered Lahore.[11] They did not plunder the city as it was the birthplace of
Guru Ram Das, the fourth
Sikh guru.[12]
Bhangi Misl held the possession of
Zamzama, the famous cannon, which was at the time named Bhangi Toap, Bhangianwala Toap and Bhangian di Top, names it retains to this day.[14]
Detail of
Lehna Singh Kahlon of the Bhangi Misl from a painting three seated Sikh sardars, circa late 18th century. He was one of the triumvirate rulers of
Lahore in the mid-to-late-18th century
Jhanda Bunga of Amritsar in the 1920's. A building constructed by the Bhangi Misl, now demolished.
^Singh, Rishi (2015). State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony:Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab. India: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 23 April 2015.
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^Dhavan, Purnima (2011). When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799, p.60. OUP USA Publisher, 3 November 2011.