Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 13th October 2026

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Ealing Green Church, The Green, W5 5QT

Description: Dr Priya Atwal shines fresh light on the long-lost kingdom of the Punjab, looking beyond its founding father, Ranjit Sigh, to restore the queens and princes to the story of this empire’s spectacular rise and fall. She brings to life a self-made ruling family, inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but eventually succumbing to gendered family politics, as the Sikh Empire fell to its great rival in the new India: the British

How to book: No need to book, though bookings through Eventbrite are eligible for a post-event recording of the talk

Price: Members & students free. Visitors £5

Tel: 07922046578

Email: philipgwoods@outlook.com

Website: https://ealinghistory.org.uk/

Organiser: Ealing Branch HA

Lecturer: Dr Priya Atwal

Region: London

Branch: Ealing