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Epilogue

Banda Singh’s Impact on Mughal Empire

There is no doubt the Mughals had captured Sadhura and Lohgarh,
and, had demolished them. They had also killed Banda Singh Bahadur
and thousands of the Sikhs. But, with this had also started the
destruction of the mighty Mughal Empire. Just in a period of six years,
Banda Singh had destroyed the Mughal Empire. The royal treasury had
got drained. More than fifty thousand Mughal soldiers had been killed;
many of them were prominent generals. Banda Singh had finished the
awe of the Mughal ruler. The area of Jammu to Delhi and up to
Saharanpur on the eastern side of Yamuna river had been devastated.
Even after the execution of Banda Singh (1716) and up to 1760, though
the Sikhs were not in power, most of the Mughal wealth, power and
attention remained centered on the expedition against the Sikhs, which
shook the foundations of the ‘mighty’ Mughal Empire.