Sikh army was betrayed in the Anglo Sikh Wars

 Historians Amar Pal Sidhu, Mandeep Rai, Sukhmani Bal Riar and William Dalrymple in the session on Anglo-Sikh wars, at the Military Literature Festival in Chandigarh on Saturday. (Anil Dayal/HT) The Anglo-Sikh Wars of 1845 and 1848 are the only two instances where the generals betrayed their own army. The complex

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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

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