Rulers of India : Ranjit Singh /
Lepel Griffin.
- New Delhi: S, Chand & Co., 1957.
- 223 p. ; 19 cm.
- Rulers of India series. .
Includes index.
I. INTRODUCTORY -- II. THE SIKHS -- III. THE SIKH THEOCRACY -- IV. THE STATE OF THE PUNJAB AT RANJIT SINGH'S BIRTH V. THE MAHARAJA -- VI. THE COURT OF RANJIT SINGH -- VII. THE ARMY AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE MAHARAJA -- VIII. HIS EARLY CONQUESTS -- IX. THE ENGLISH AND THE CIS-SUTLEJ TERRITORY -- X. LATER CONQUESTS.
There is, perhaps, no more notable and picturesque figure among the chiefs who rose to power on the ruins of the Mughal Empire than Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the short-lived Sikh kingdom of Lahore. In the stormy days at the beginning of the century, amid a fierce conflict of races and creeds, he found his opportunity, and seizing it with energy, promptitude. and genius, he welded the turbulent and warlike sectaries who followed the teaching of Govind Singh into a homogeneous nation.