The first Sikh king's last wife

Ms Divakaruni's book is a path-breaking, poignant, exhilarating and almost surreal account of the little-known Jindan Kaur

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Sai Manish 

A gold digger awed by money and power? A doting sister to an irresponsible brother? The Messalina of the Punjab? Possessive mother of an heir apparent plucked from her and converted to Christianity? A regent queen who jeopardised the Khalsa army to quench her own desire for vengeance? A lustful widow who dared to break taboos imperilling her own ascendance in the royal court? A shrewd tactician whose blind trust became her undoing? Among the epochal works that have detailed the Sikh empire, the lives and times of its first king, Ranjit Singh, the Khalsa army’s various ...

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First Published: Fri, April 02 2021. 22:19 IST
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