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title: Tej Singh
author: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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updated: 2023-07-17
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# Tej Singh
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/16800.png)
## Image Caption
A portrait of Tej Singh (1799-1862), commander-in-chief of the Sikh armies during the [First Anglo-Sikh War](https://www.worldhistory.org/First_Anglo-Sikh_War/) (1845-6) against the British [East India Company](https://www.worldhistory.org/East_India_Company/). Tej Singh may have used deliberately defensive tactics during the [war](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/War/) to secure himself a position of rank under the subsequent British administration. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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## Cite This Work
### APA
London, V. a. A. M. (2022, December 07). Tej Singh. *World History Encyclopedia*.
### Chicago
London, Victoria and Albert Museum,. "Tej Singh." *World History Encyclopedia*, December 07, 2022. .
### MLA
London, Victoria and Albert Museum,. "Tej Singh." *World History Encyclopedia*, 07 Dec 2022, .
## License & Copyright
[Original image](https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1159865/rajah-tej-singh-portrait-miniature-unknown/) by **Victoria and Albert Museum, London**. Submitted by [Mark Cartwright](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/markzcartwright/ "User Page: Mark Cartwright"), published on 07 December 2022. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.