Three things you didn’t know about the Kohinoor
No other gem has captured imaginations as the Koh-i-noor, the ‘mountain of light’, and it continues to make news even now, with the Supreme Court of India asking the government what its plans were, after a plea was entered to bring back the diamond from the UK, where it currently
Maharaja Ranjit Singhs statue to be installed in France in September
Modern miniature of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Chandigarh, Apr 6 (PTI) A statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh will be installed in Frances Saint-Tropez town, the birth place of his Army General Jean-Francois Allard, in September this year.Together with the installation of busts of General Allard and his wife Bannou Pan Dei.
BBC radio programme The Sikh Empire
The Sikh Empire: In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the Sikh Empire in the 18th Century under Ranjit Singh, who unified the Sikh kingdoms as the Mughal Empire declined. He became Maharaja of the Panjab at Lahore in 1801, capturing Amritsar the following year. His empire
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