Re: Maharajah Ranjeet Singh
Great we share the same view then… 
Slight correction Chingiz Khan’s Empire as we call it actually continued to grow well after his demise. In fact it was still expanding rapidly by the time of his great Grandsons, and there werer several reasons why it eventually collapsed. Unlike the much shorter Sikh Empire the Mongol Empire was never really meant to be an Empire to begin with. It faced much more than one or two threats and really it was the victim of it’s own success as it expanded it made more contact with enemies. It eventually fragmented not by enemies beating it on the battlefield but when internal powerstruggles took over.
However it’s a myth to say that the Mongols collapsed after Ghengis as in fact they were still expanding by Hulagus time a couple of generations later, what really led to the disintegration of the Mongol Empire was civilisation there was no way they could sustain themselves in luxury unless they settled down, they obviously chose to settle down rather than eke out in the Wilderness but then as they settled they became weak so that by Kubilais time they were finished.
I doubt the real Chingiz really had any desire to conquer as far as he did but thats perhaps a story for a different thread.
Still all is good and its great to share different viewpoints.