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Lehna Singh Majithia: Sikh Who Made astronomical instruments

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Lahore, 1830s. In the opulent court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, amid warrior generals and spiritual leaders, stood a man with a telescope in one hand and a calculator in the other. He wasn’t asoldier. He wasn’t a priest. He was Lehna Singh Majithia—a name Punjab would remember as its first modern scientist, engineer, clockmaker, and visionary. This is the forgotten story of the Sikh polymath who lit up 19th-century Punjab with the spark of science…
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Kiddaan broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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