This book examines in successive chapters the Indian Army's role in extending and securing the British Empire, especially the employment of Sikh soldiers to be in the vanguard of military operations, and as the Sentinels of the Empire. The book takes us from the fall of the Sikh kingdom to the horrors of the Sepoy mutiny. The North West Frontier of India, the most sensitive strategic frontier of the British Empire, as the British feared a Russian invasion of India through the Khyber and Bolan Passes as the Russian Empire had expanded towards India. The military operations on the Frontier tied...

This book, written by Narindar Singh Dhesi, profiles the Sikh Sardars who had been deprived and considered dregs of society, become leaders of the downtrodden people and raised them to a point where they became masters of their own destiny. The Sardars, during this period, not only confronted political powers, especially the Mughals and Afghans, but with their strong arm were able to carve out their own independent principalities in the land in which they were but a tiny minority. One of the leading Sardars, Ranjit Singh, was able to baffle with his genius the British and the Afghans to...