At which place did Raja Ranjit Singh set up the Adalat-i-Ala?

The correct answer is B) Lahore. Ranjit Singh took Lahore in 1799 and made it the capital of his Sikh kingdom, so the highest judicial body of his state, the Adalat-i-Ala, sat there. It was the apex court in a system that drew on Persian-style administration and local customary law.

• Amritsar: Religiously central, with the Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht, but not the seat of the state's highest court.
• Firozpur: A military and frontier location. The cantonment there was developed under the British after 1840, not as Ranjit Singh's judicial centre.
• Multan: Taken in 1818 and governed as a province. It was never the central seat of the Sikh state's apex court.

For Mains, this links to the way the Sikh state combined military power, personal rule and a centralised judicial structure, a useful point for questions on pre-colonial governance in Punjab.

Trap: Aspirants pick Amritsar because of its strong Sikh religious identity. Religious centre and state capital are different things.