Maharajah Ranjeet Singh

[Southie]

Re: Maharajah Ranjeet Singh

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

I personally hold that the mark of a great leader isn’t their conquests and their other deeds, but rather their ability to create lasting, stable, powerful state that can endure for over 100 years against all challenges.

By that measure, Ranjeet Singh clearly failed - he wasn’t able to set in place a stable succession.

Similarly, Queen Victoria failed as Empress of India - her British India was based on such inequality as to drive its subjects to seek to overthrow the system that ruled them.

Very well put