Beast Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 So how did the British beat the Sikhs to gain control of Punjab? What was the role of Dogras and Maharaja Ranjit Singh's wife? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted May 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 lol damn, I gotta change my deoderant! well, can anyone maybe recommend a good book on the misl period? (please) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infernal Monk Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 sorry can't help you, but damn this site just died all of the sudden 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_singh Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 "How the Sikhs lost their Kingdom" - Khushwant Singh. Its on Amazon. Its quite an interesting read about how the British defeated the Sikhs and the role of different people and groups in this. Its not too biased so it looks at the situation from different angles and stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted May 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 There's a Hari Gupta book as well that i spotted on amazon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amandeepm Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 I would strongly recomend : Six BAttles for India : Bruce George (hard to find these days) History of the Sikhs , Hari Ram Gupta How the SIkhs lost their kingdom , Khushwant Singh Raj, Lawrence James (breif but very readbale account) Cunningham HIstory fo the Sikh poepel . . almost contemporaneous account the latest trans of Umdat Ut Tawarick Daftar V have fun 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singh47 Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 aman, how about Shah Mohammad's Jang Nama? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted May 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Cheers guys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amandeepm Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Yep, that's another good one - which transaltion would you recomend? Becuase it was originally in poetic form it isnt really supposed to be an accurate historical record more of a eulogy and the translations are pretty clumsy at best. but it is of course a worthy addition to the book list. Some of the best researched and most knowledgeable sources on the Anglo Sikh Wars are the war game modellers who invest hundreds of hours in painstackingly recreating battles on a minature scale. THey go into immense amounts of uniform detail for their models and the terrain and then try tio understand exactly what happened. have a look at : http://www.magweb.com/tourmw/news/0401/1q17sikh.htm and the work of the perry twins. More recently there has been a osprey book published by one of the perrys covering the period with some info on the a-s wars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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