By : Peter Bance

ISBN: 978-0-9561270-0-6

SOVEREIGN, SQUIRE & REBEL, traces in greater detail the Maharajah's eight children and their partners too. In regards to the Maharajah, his life in Lahore and Fatehgarh has too been greatly researched, whilst images in public and private collections have been reproduced for the first time. This highly illustrated book features, launched as a deluxe edition with a gilted cloth bound luxury slip-case, has over 250 rare photographic images which have been reproduced in full color on high quality art paper. PATWANT SINGH, India's highly acclaimed Sikh historian and author, who has also provided the foreword for this delightful publication, writes "The purpose of this fine book will be best served if the reader remains focused on the reality of what happened during the ten years after Ranjit Singh’s death, and till the time Duleep Singh died in a faraway land. British historians excel at verbal nobility in describing their own past glories, and explaining why they went to war and the exemplary manner in which they conducted it. But reality can be quite different. As George Bernard Shaw very aptly put it “… you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles …”So it is very good news indeed when Sikh historians like Peter Bance write prolifically to break the mould of make-believe history."

'A thoroughly entertaining and enlightening read, packed full of fabulous photographs of a fascinating family'

JEROME TAYLOR, The Independent

‘Breathtaking imagery, colour and absorbing text’

THE INDIAN EXPRESS

‘The books is majestic, just like his subject’

THE HINDUSTAN TIMES

'An important coverage of a period of Sikh history which, like much else, our historians tend to ignore'

PATWANT SINGH

'Dispelling misconceptions and myths about the erstwhile scion of the 19th century Punjab’

THE TRIBUNE

'The story of the last sovereign of Punjab would not have been completed without such a work’

THE TIMES OF INDIA'

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