Foreigners at the Court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

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This book is a new, analytic and informative study of Foreigners at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.  Most of the writers writing about the court and courtiers of Maharaja Ranjit Singh made an passing reference to foreign courtiers, who played in important role in running his military and civil administration for two decades.  Thus they could not be fare to Foreign courtiers.  This work is based on contemporary Persian, Gurmukhi and English sources which have been used with caution.  In the study the efforts have been made to prove that the reorganized army of the Maharaja towards the end of his reign was far better than the unorganized army of the earlier period, and the credit for this goes, no small measure, to his efficient European officers.  The book also present the foreign courtiers’ role at the Lahore Darbar.  Not only their contribution for the improvement of Maharaj Ranjit Singh’s Army and Civil Department but also their relation, with the Maharaja, and his successors, their mutual relations and finally their relations with the British Government have been discussed at length.  The book is expected to cater to the needs of those who desire to delve into military organization of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Devinder Kumar Verma

Devinder Kumar Verma is M.A. (History and Political Science, Ph.D. (History).  At present retired as Reader, Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala. He was Executive Editor of the journal The Panjab Past and Present, published by the Punjabi University, Patiala from 1987-2005.  Published five books and contributed more than five dozen research papers on different aspects of medieval history of Pubjab to various research journals in India and abroad.

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Title
Foreigners at the Court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
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Edition
1st ed.
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ix+98p., References; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 24cm.
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