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Empire of the Sikhs
Author(s): Patwant Singh (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Owen
- Publication Date: 11 Jan. 2008
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 072061323X
- ISBN-13: 9780720613230
Book Description
From India’s greatest writers, this is an authoritative and much-admired biography of one of the greatest Sikhs in history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Kate Mosse (presenter): ‘I was really grateful to have read the book. I knew very little about Sikhism. I was very interested to learn about its history and about Ranjit Singh being a contemporary of Napoleon’s, with these two completely different ways of working in India and Europe . . . I think there is no doubt that the two authors are scholars, and the research here is fantastic . . . I loved the early chapters’ description of the birth of Sikhism and the beauty of its texts, and it s made me want to know more . . . I also loved the fact that this book is written in Indian English – it hasn’t been Americanized, and there is that sense of richness about it.’ –Kate Mosse, BBC Radio 4, A Good Read
This is a story well worth telling, and Patwant Singh and Jyoti Rai do so with verve and enthusiasm –David Goodall, The Tablet
Praise for Patwant Singh’s ‘The Sikhs’: ‘A balanced, nuanced and well-documented study of a people little understood in the West’ –Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Patwant Singh is the author of “Of Dreams and Demons: An Indian Memoir,” “The Second Partition: Fault-Lines in India’s Democracy,” “The Sikhs,” and “The World According to Washington: An Asian View.”
