The remarkable story of Udham Singh who killed Sir Michael O’Dwyer to avenge the victims of the Amritsar massacre

The Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1799-1839) died ten years before the British annexation of the Punjab in 1849. his funerary monument or samadhi is located next to the Lahore fort, where the Maharaja lived. The structure is the last state funded project of the Lahore Darbar and represents a high point of nineteenth-century Sikh architecture, second only to the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Award-winning journalist, author and presenter Sathnam Sanghera speaks with reporter-filmmaker Amandeep Kaur Bhangu about his writing, journalism and TV work.

Our final talk of the 2024 Bookclub series was with award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera. in discussion with Amandeep Bhangu. His most recent book, Empireworld, a sequel to Empireland, extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain.