Fakir Syed Aijazuddin (b. 1942) is the youngest son of Fakir Waheeduddin. Educated in the United Kingdom, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1965. Since then, he has had a distinguished professional career in the private and public sector in Pakistan and abroad. Like his father, he has maintained a parallel pursuit as an author. His reputation as an art-historian received its first impetus with his catalogue raisonné of Pahari paintings and Sikh portraits in the Lahore Museum (1977). This was followed by Sikh Portraits by European Artists (1979), a study of the 19th century paintings in the Princess Bamba collection, Lahore Fort. His most recent work on this period of Punjab history is The Resourceful Fakirs: Three Muslim Brothers at the Sikh Court of Lahore (2014). It has been reprinted recently in India. Aijazuddin has three children and lives in Lahore with his author wife Shahnaz.

The Real Maharaja Ranjit Singh: A Family Memoir by Fakir Syed Aijazuddin

Few biographies of the unique Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh have achieved the popularity that Fakir Waheeduddin’s The Real Maharaja Ranjit Singh has done.  Since its initial publication in 1965, the book has been reprinted a number of times but never with the authenticity that this present volume offers. In many...