A superb collection of photographs which tell the story of the Duleep Singhs, the family of the late Maharajah of the Punjab, who was exiled to Britain and became a favourite of Queen Victoria.
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Peter Bance is an independent researcher, specialising in Sikh history. He also operates a family real estate business. He has been researching Kaharajah Duleep Singh since 1995, wrote the entry for Maharani Jindan for the New Dictionary of National Biography and also contributed to the research for the book The Maharajah's Box. He lives in Esswx.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Informational but not Enough,
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I have read many books on kingdom of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh and collapse of his empire after his death but hardly any author went to the troubles of writing about his family after 1849. In this book author has written about Maharaja Daleep Singh and his family. He has provided significant amount of pictures and paper is of high quality. It certainly added more to my knowledge about the last descendents of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh. However, this book did not meet my expectations because the information provided (though new) is not enough and only 1-2 pages cover each individual and next 5-6 pages are full of pictures which do not tell a whole lot about the lifestyle they lived or hardships they faced. Not much details about how the family lived, their customs, beliefs, attitude towards the British and how the British consistently spied on them. I always wondered why children of Daleep Singh didn't marry or if married what happened to their children and this book did not answer that question. The author has also relied too much on English sources and considered them authentic whereas the facts is that English sources were written with the intentions of justifying British occupation on Punjab and maligning the ruling family's reputation. The author mentions Rani Jind Kaur (Jindan) having an affair which is a baseless assertion and has been refuted by many historians of that period. He is also wrong on some other important facts. Nonetheless, this book offers new information (though not enough) and is unique. I would suggest "Dukhiye Maa Putt" by Sohan Singh Seetal which is lot more detailed about the life of Maharaja Daleep Singh and exposes true British policies against the Sikh empire.
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