Bobby Singh Bansal is a writer, historian and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of The Lion’s Firanghis – Europeans at the Court of Lahore (2010), which charts the careers and lives of European mercenaries who served at the mighty Lahore Durbar in the early nineteenth century. His documentary films include The Sikhs of Kabul – A Forgotten Community (2012), which won an award at the Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico, 2013. This was followed by The Road to Mandalay – The Burmese Sikhs in 2014. His new film The Legacy of the Sikh Empire will release in late 2015.