The Mandir dedicated to the son of Lord Ram inside the Lahore Fort that the Bhangi Sardars may have built.

 The Mandir dedicated to the son of Lord Ram inside the Lahore Fort…dates from the time the Sikhs ruled Lahore…it’s even possible that the Bhangi Sardars Lehna, Gujjar and Sobha had it built…with the three main possibilities being Lehna, his son Chet…or Maharaja Ranjit Singh.


Personally, looking at the Mandir, which is dedicated to the son of Lord Ram, after whom Lahore is named while the city of Kasur is named after the other son, I think the scale is more along the lines of it being built in the time of the Bhangi Sardars as Maharaja Ranjit Singh would have built better and bigger!


Reading the history, it is actually quite astonishing how close the two communities were once…what with Bhai Vasti Ram’s Samadhi and Jhingar Suthra Samadhi just outside the fort…guess the real separation happened during British colonial times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_Temple?fbclid=IwAR3vwSNMuXqrXnyaxsdW-URfEya3hgL73ZOkGsieqy1zgtuY06v5EVTWPvg


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