The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab
Book Details
Author(s)
Khushwant Singh
Publisher
Penguin
ISBN / ASIN
067008770X
ISBN-13
9780670087709
Category
Punjab (India)
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
From one of India s best-loved authors, a classic, pageturning historical narrative. Khushwant Singh passed away in March 2014 at the age of 99.
This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he had built was riven by intrigues, betrayals, assassinations and wars until the British finally annexed it, seizing the Kohinoor diamond and sending the young Maharaja Duleep Singh into exile in Britain. Khushwant Singh brings this turbulent period to vivid life in this page-turning account of the collapse of a once-mighty kingdom.
This riveting historical narrative is more full of drama than any fiction. With the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great Punjab empire he had built was riven by intrigues, betrayals, assassinations and wars until the British finally annexed it, seizing the Kohinoor diamond and sending the young Maharaja Duleep Singh into exile in Britain. Khushwant Singh brings this turbulent period to vivid life in this page-turning account of the collapse of a once-mighty kingdom.
