Raja Sukh Jiwan Mal

Raja Sukh Jiwan Mal was a Punjabi Khatri soldier in the Afghan Durrani army who became governor and, later, the king (1754–1762) of Kashmir. He was from Gujrat, Pakistan in modern-day Punjab province of Pakistan. Initially he defeated the large army of Ahmad Shah Durrani several times but later on due to internal intrigue was eventually defeated by the Afghans. The Afghans got aid from some Kashmiri nobles otherwise even the large army of several thousand Afghans was decimated by the Kashmiris.