IF ONE WAS TO STACK ALL THE BIOGRAPHERS OF Maharaja Ranjit Singh–one on top of another–they would still not reach the stature that diminutive ruler of the Punjab achieved during his lifetime, and even more so after his death almost two hundred years ago, on 27 June 1839. The Real Maharaja Ranjit Singh is offered to the public in a revised edition, embellished by vignettes taken from 19th-century engravings, contemporary to the years of the Sikh kingdom of Lahore. It is an invaluable source indispensable to the study of Punjab’s history, seen through the eyes of a later but genuine admirer.