The Punjab Chiefs is an Extensive insight into the aristocratic and noble Muslim, Hindu and Sikh courtiers that had served the opulent Court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the early 19th century. In this state of the art book, the first portion dealves into the lineage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's own family which is integral to the book's inception and later focuses on his descendants and powerful courtiers. The Voluptuous work explores the history of these numerous personalities from the landed gentry today, whose ancestors had served proudly the Sikh and British Empires in graphic details which had been completely unknown. Post the Partition of 1947, may elite families migrated to India abandoning their vast ancestral estates and so this volume covers the regions of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttrakhand, New Delhi and Lahore, Pakistan. It brings alive the families of Majithia. Attariwala, Nakai, Jaijee, Mokal, Bhadaur, Kalsia and even Rai Bahadur Narain Singh who had transformed Delhi in the 1930's. The Punjab Chiefs, is a unique fully-coloured book that includes unpublished and unseen pictures that will not only be informative and inspirational, it will attract the general reader not just academically as a reference book, but as a treasure trove for all history enthusiasts wishing to indulge in capturing the lost glory of the Punjab aristocracy in India and Pakistan.
The Punjab Chiefs is an Extensive insight into the aristocratic and noble Muslim, Hindu and Sikh courtiers that had served the opulent Court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the early 19th century. In this state of the art book, the first portion dealves into the lineage of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's own family which is integral to the book's inception and later focuses on his descendants and powerful courtiers. The Voluptuous work explores the history of these numerous personalities from the landed gentry today, whose ancestors had served proudly the Sikh and British Empires in graphic details which had been completely unknown. Post the Partition of 1947, may elite families migrated to India abandoning their vast ancestral estates and so this volume covers the regions of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttrakhand, New Delhi and Lahore, Pakistan. It brings alive the families of Majithia. Attariwala, Nakai, Jaijee, Mokal, Bhadaur, Kalsia and even Rai Bahadur Narain Singh who had transformed Delhi in the 1930's. The Punjab Chiefs, is a unique fully-coloured book that includes unpublished and unseen pictures that will not only be informative and inspirational, it will attract the general reader not just academically as a reference book, but as a treasure trove for all history enthusiasts wishing to indulge in capturing the lost glory of the Punjab aristocracy in India and Pakistan.
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