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1: Jimmy Grewal (Chandigarh, Punjab), February 24, 2014, 9:39 AM.

A well-written piece summarizing an important chapter of our history. However, I feel compelled to add that your depiction of the Dogra brothers is selective and over-romanticized ... a trap easy to fall into if your research is limited to merely picking a few lines here and there from popular accounts and not doing any original research. I suggest you look deeper into the internal correspondence amongst the closest allies of the Dogras -- the British! Their records were meticulously kept and have been painstakingly preserved to this very day. They reveal the real character of the Dogras and the full extent of their ignominy. Ranjit Singh may have dressed them up, as he did all his courtiers, in the richest of fineries, but you need to get behind the self-serving accounts of the apologists and the propagandists to get to the real truth. However, thank you for doing these series. At the very least, it awakens our interest in the period and hopefully will encourage us to do some serious reading ourselves.