Shere Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh

What this book is about

A juvenile Punjabi history of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, written by Prem Singh Hoti Mardan and published in 2015 by Lahore Book Shop, Ludhiana, printed at R.K. Offset, Delhi. The contents pages show it beginning with the genealogy of the maharaja's family and his ancestors Sardar Chhatar Singh and Sardar Maha Singh, then his birth and the condition of Punjab at the time, and proceeding through the capture of Lahore, the battle of Bhasin and Jamrud and the taking of Multan, Gujranwala and Amritsar, the Afghan campaigns, Kashmir, Peshawar, Multan and Kashmir as sarkar, the Kohinoor diamond and the famous treaties with the British. Later chapters cover the Gurkha war, the deaths of Kharak Singh and Nau Nihal Singh and the final Sikh period.