Shaikh Imam-ud-Din

Shaikh Imam-ud-Din (1819–1859) was a Muslim noble in the Sikh Empire who served as the governor of Jalandhar Doab during 1841–1846.

He was a son of Shaikh Muhy-ud-Din, the Sikh-appointed governor of Kashmir. On 16 March 1846 Kashmir was sold to Gulab Singh of Dogra dynasty by the British following the defeat of Sikhs in the First Anglo-Sikh war. However, after Muhy-ud-Din's death on 24 March Imam-ud-Din seized the governship of Kashmir and opposed the occupation of the valley by Gulab Singh. He defeated a Dogra contingent sent to take charge from him in August. His rebellion, which lasted for seven months, was ultimately put down in October by a combined British and Sikh army sent from Lahore, and on 9 November, 1846 Kashmir officially became part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Imam-ud-Din, described by a contemporary British writer as perhaps "the best mannered and best dressed man in the Panjab", lacked the necessary political foresight and popular support of the Kashmiris to fulfill his ambition of carving out an independent state. He died in 1859, in Lahore, and was buried in the courtyard of Data Darbar.