Maharaja Ranjit Singh had spent his energy in consolidating his empire when he was not expanding it. But the army, no longer disciplined to the same extent as it was in the hands of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and unfortunately ill-served too by its generals, met its waterloo in the first Anglo-Sikh war and to take revenge for its humiliation plunged into second Anglo-Sikh war not long after. The result as we know was the end of the Sikh empire so assiduously built by the great Maharaja Ranjit Singh. It was the young Maharaja Dalip Singh, then barely 11 years old, who had to suffer the indignity of presiding even of his faith (he was converted to Christianity), he was packed off to England on a small pension to vegetate for rest of his life. A tragic end coming so soon to a promising story weaved by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.