By Punjabnewswire4
CHANDIGARH,
SEPT 17
Dr Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of
Mahatma Gandhi and former President of Initiatives of Change will be in the
city tomorrow for the launch of his new book on Punjab's history. The
event is jointly organised by the publishers, Aleph of New Delhi, and
Aitihasiki, Panjab University's History Department Alumni Association.
Titled "Punjab: A History from
Aurangzeb to Mountbatten " the work is researched in India, Pakistan and
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The book narrates a 240-year
story of what old-timers know as undivided Punjab, beginning with the 1707
death of Emperor Aurangzeb and ending with the 1947 division into West Punjab
and East Punjab.
Post-1707 instability, invasions by
Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali, Afghan-Sikh clashes, half a century of Sikh
rule, a century of British rule, the movements for independence and majority
rule, the carnage of 1947, and the humanity that countered the carnage -- all
this and more is covered and interpreted.
The book will be launched on 18 September 2013 at the Chandigarh Judicial Academy in Sector 43 at 11.30 AM by his excellency Sh Shivraj Patil, the Governor of Punjab
and UT Administrator.
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