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Tej Singh

died 1862

Tej Singh was a senior Sikh commander during the First Anglo-Sikh War. He commanded at major battles including Ferozeshah and Sobraon, where his conduct became the subject of lasting accusations that he abandoned or betrayed the Khalsa army.

Tej Singh was a senior commander of the Sikh Khalsa army during the First Anglo-Sikh War. His conduct at crucial battles, particularly Sobraon, became controversial because contemporaries and later historians accused senior Lahore commanders of withholding support or betraying the army.

Amarpal Singh’s The First Anglo-Sikh War explains the instability of the Lahore court, the power of the Khalsa army and the roles of Duleep Singh, Jind Kaur, Lal Singh and Tej Singh, while following Hugh Gough and Henry Hardinge as their forces advanced towards the Sutlej. In George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Mountain of Light, Flashman is sent into the Punjab disguised as a legal agent while the Khalsa army dominates the unstable Lahore court. He becomes entangled with Maharani Jind Kaur, the child ruler Duleep Singh and ministers whose rival plans alternately encourage and restrain war with the East India Company.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Tej Singh (1 series)

The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2(80,547)

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Tej Singh (1 book)

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