Empire of the Sikhs: Revised edition

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The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, up to date of Napoleon and one of the crucial powerful and charismatic Indian rulers of his age

Ranjit Singh has been in large part written out of accounts of the subcontinent’s past by up to date Western historians, yet he had an have an effect on that lasts to this day. He unified the warring chiefdoms of the Punjab into an odd northern Empire of the Sikhs, built up a formidable modern army, kept the British in check to the south of his realm, and closed the Khyber Pass through which plunderers had for centuries poured into India. Unique among empire builders, he was once humane and just, gave employment to defeated foes, honored religious faiths other than his own, and included Hindus and Muslims among his ministers. In person he was once a colorful character whose his court was once renowned for its splendor; he had 20 wives, kept a regiment of “Amazons,” and possessed a stable of thousands of horses. The authors make use of plenty of eyewitness accounts from Indian and European sources, from reports of Maratha spies at the Lahore Durbar to British parliamentary papers and trip accounts. The story includes the range of the maharaja’s military achievements and ends with an account of the controversial period of the Anglo-Sikh Wars following his death, which saw the fall of his empire at the same time as in the hands of his successors.

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