About the Book: Punjab A History From Aurangzeb To Mountbatten
An unprecedented historical account of undivided Punjab, from the death of
Aurangzeb to the Partition. 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 on fresh sources as well as previous accounts provided from
opposing perspectives,