The Sukerchakia took its name from the village of Sukerchak near Gujranwala. Its founder was Charat Singh, who built the fort at Gujranwala, and it passed to his son Mahan Singh and then in 1792 to Mahan Singh's son Ranjit Singh Ji, aged twelve.
It was a middling misl in the 1780s, holding country in the Rechna Doab, not among the largest by revenue or by horse.
In 1799 Ranjit Singh Ji took Lahore from the three Bhangi sardars holding it, at nineteen, with the invitation of a section of the city's notables. He was crowned Maharaja at Lahore in 1801.
Every other misl on the near side of the Sutlej was absorbed within twenty years. The Cis-Sutlej states survived only because they placed themselves under British protection in 1809.
The misl became the state and the name Sukerchakia disappeared from use within a generation, which is what happens to a winning faction's old name.
It was among the smaller of the twelve in territory when Ranjit Singh Ji inherited it at twelve in 1792. Gujranwala was its seat and Charat Singh and Mahan Singh were the two generations before him.
The rise came through marriage and alliance as much as through fighting. The Kanhaiya connection through Sada Kaur and the Nakai marriage each brought force with them.
Gujranwala is in Pakistan. The samadh of Mahan Singh and other buildings of the family's period survive there in varying condition.