Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten

by Rajmohan Gandhi

Book Overview

For centuries, the fertile land of five rivers in the north of the Indian subcontinent was coveted by numerous empires and invaders. In this, the first major account of undivided Punjab, award-winning historian, biographer and scholar, Rajmohan Gandhi, gives us its history during its most tumultuous phase from the death of Aurangzeb, in the early eighteenth century, to its brutal partition in 1947, coinciding with the departure of the British. Relying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9383064080
• ISBN13: 9789383064083
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"