Sikh Raj Kiven Gaya

What this book is about

Sikh Raj Kiven Gaya? ('How Was the Sikh Kingdom Lost?') by Sohan Lal Sital is an illustrated history in verse, published by Sohan Lal Sital in Jalandhar, with printing at Sarthaj Printing Press; the volume carries successive edition notices from June 1944 through a thirty-sixth edition dated 2013. The contents run in four parts covering the period from the rise of Ranjit Singh and the Anglo-Sikh wars through the annexation of Punjab, then events of 1905 and the 1943 quit India movement, then post-1947 politics including the Master Tara controversy, the Emergency, the 1984 anti-Sikh violence and the end of 'the last Muslim rule' in Amritsar in 1993. The preface is by J.S. Ahluwalia and closes with a note by the author dated 20 April 1994 that he wrote only from the evidence of old historical records.