The Rule Is for None But Allah by Cook

Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197690185)

Vendor: Priya Atwal
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Rule Is for None But Allah by Cook

Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire

$19.95
The Rule Is for None But Allah by Cook

Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire

$19.95
Format: Hardcover
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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. She brings to life a self-made ruling family, inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but eventually succumbing to gendered family politics, as the Sikh Empire fell to its great rival in the new India: the British.

Royals and Rebels is a fascinating tale of family, royalty and the fluidity of power, set in a dramatic global era when new stars rose and upstart empires clashed.

Author: Priya Atwal
ISBN-10: 0197690181
ISBN-13: 9780197690185
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2023
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.14w x 0.96d
By Priya Atwal
By Priya Atwal
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Priya Atwal is a historian of empire, monarchy and cultural politics across Britain and South Asia. She has taught History at King's College London and Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate. She is currently Community History Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research has been featured in collaborative projects with Historic Royal Palaces, among others; and she makes regular broadcast appearances, most recently presenting the BBC Radio 4 series, Lies My Teacher Told Me. She tweets @priyaatwal.

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