Assistant Resident At Lahore
Following the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War(1846-7), the Punjab came to be ruled by a British Resident seated at the historic capital of Lahore, supported by a Council of Regency acting for the infant Maharaja Duleep Singh. In 1846, aged 27, Edwardes was appointed by the new British Resident Sir Henry Lawrence, as Assistant Resident. After 3 months at Lahore he was posted to the court of the Maharaja of Jammu, recently established by the British as ruler of Kashmir, divested from Punjab territorial lands following the Treaty of Lahore in 1846. Here he helped to suppress a local rebellion against the Maharaja, Gulab Singh.
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