TY - BOOK AU - Atwal,Priya TI - Royals and rebels: the rise and fall of the Sikh empire T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197554593 (ebook) : AV - DS475.2.A2 U1 - 954.50310922 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Hurst & Company KW - Ranjit Singh, KW - Sikhs KW - Kings and rulers KW - Punjab (India) KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century N1 - Previously issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh empire stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore the queens and princes to the story of this empire's spectacular rise and fall UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197548318.001.0001 ER -