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Sikha shahi (سکھا شاہی, lit. 'Sikh rule') or Khalsa raj (خالصہ راج, lit. 'Khalsa rule') is a term used for the period of Sikh rule in Punjab, Peshawar, Jammu and Kashmir. In the contemporary usage, it denotes the high-handedness of a ruler. About 70 per cent of the subjects of the Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh were Muslim. In popular Muslim imagination, the Sikh period became synonymous with a rule of anarchy and religious intolerance. The phrase now refers to the dictatorial rule or ...