A prince -- Captain Amarinder Singh (retd), the maharaja of Patiala, no less -- was replaced as Punjab's chief minister by Charanjit Singh Channi, now the Republic's only Dalit CM.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the weekend's whirlwind political developments in Punjab.
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