#duleep singh

[silver-horse]

classic glitch in the animus

[women-throughout-history]

Maharani Jind Kaur

Maharani Jind Kaur, also known as Rani Jindan, was a significant figure in Sikh history, serving as the last queen of the Sikh Empire from 1843 to 1846. Born in 1817 in Gujranwala, she became the youngest wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire. After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, Jind Kaur took on the role of regent for her son, Maharaja Duleep Singh. Jind Kaur's reign as regent was marked by political turmoil and conflict with the British East India Company. In 1845, during the First Anglo-Sikh War, she dispatched the Sikh Army to confront the British, leading to the annexation of the entire Punjab in 1849. After her son's dethronement, she faced imprisonment and exile by the British. Despite challenges, Jind Kaur escaped captivity in 1849, disguising herself as a slave girl and finding refuge in Nepal. Her efforts to resist British dominance continued through correspondence with rebels in Punjab and Jammu-Kashmir. She later reunited with her son in Calcutta in 1861, influencing him to return to Sikhism. Jind Kaur's exile took a toll on her health, and she passed away in her sleep on August 1, 1863, in Kensington, England. Denied the opportunity to be cremated in Punjab, her ashes were eventually brought back to India in 1924 and reburied in the Samadhi of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore. Despite her challenging life and exile, Maharani Jind Kaur's legacy endures as a symbol of resilience and resistance against colonial rule. In 2009, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Kensal Green Dissenters Chapel, honouring her contributions to Sikh history.

[usernamesarehard1]

Queer History: Real Life LGBT+ Princess

[confusedbyinterface]

When your baby sister is coming out and you're really not into the whole debutante ball thing but you're banging her deportment tutor and if you don't go she's going to make a whole fucking thing out of it so you have to sit there in this frilly monstrosity for hours.

[pancreasnostalgia]

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, by Sufiya Ahmed. Based on the true story of a Punjabi princess who was born and raised in England and became a Suffragette. While there have been true stories in My Story before, this one didn’t really fit in. Primarily because it spans five decades. For about half of the story, Sophia is in her thirties and forties. But despite her age, she does not act maturely. She constantly complains that her royal title prevents her from getting arrested, but doesn’t care when people tell her that her greatest value is in the free publicity she draws.

There are long sections explaining various bits of history, which would have been more appropriate in a historical note rather than the story. Instead of a historical note it had an author’s note, which was not satisfying.

In many ways, my feelings about this book were similar to those from Suffragette.

[988987]

Duleep Trophy

[books1700to1900]

This is a screenshot from my Kindle screen. I bought three books this morning, thanks to recommendations online.

- The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh by Bali Rai (Not a romance. I just really liked the review)

- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

- The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

The final book is a romance involving a hologram. It has put me in mind of one of my favourite K-dramas, My Holo Love. I’ve shared a GIF from My Holo Love just below.

[whencyclopedia]

Second Anglo-Sikh War

The Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) once again saw the British East India Company defeat the Sikh Empire in northern India. The war, which started off as a rebellion against British colonial rule, included the high-casualty Battle of Chillianwala, but the conflict was finally won by the EIC with a decisive victory at the Battle of Gujrat in February 1849.

The EIC & the Sikh Empire

The British East India Company had been grabbing territory since its victories at the 1757 Battle of Plassey and the 1764 Battle of Buxar, which gave the British a vast and regular income in local taxes, besides other riches. The EIC kept on expanding and defeated the southern Kingdom of Mysore in the three Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799) and the Maratha Confederacy of Hindu princes in central and northern India in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1819). Next came expansion in the far northeast and more victories in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-1815) and the three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824-1885). The next and final target of the EIC was northwest India and the Punjab, the heartland of the Sikh Empire.

The Punjab, located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, is an area which today covers parts of Pakistan and India. The Sikh Empire had risen due to the gradual decline of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). Sikh territories were divided between 12 misls or armies, each led by a chief who collectively formed a loose confederation. The greatest of Sikh leaders was Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), the 'Lion of Lahore'. He forged the Sikh Empire by modernising the army and conquering Multan and Kashmir (1819), Ladakh (1833), and Peshawar (1834). This expansion rang alarm bells in the offices of the East India Company, especially after their failure in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42) to the north.

In 1839, the Sikhs, Afghans, and British signed a treaty to protect existing borders. Ranjit Singh died in June 1839, and political turmoil weakened the Sikh government's control over its own army. Rajit Singh's youngest son, Duleep Singh (l. 1838-1893), was selected as the new Sikh ruler in 1843, but as he was but a child, his mother, Jind Kaur (aka Rani Jindan, d. 1863), ruled as regent. Jind Kaur supported a military escapade against the British since, even if the Sikhs lost, this would cut the army down to size, perhaps ending the interference of the generals in government affairs and certainly reducing the threat of a military coup.

The EIC exploited the turmoil and conquered the Sindh province (southwest of the Punjab) in 1843. Confident that some of the Sikh misls in the east supported closer ties with the EIC, the British prepared for war in the Punjab and amassed an army of 40,000 men to the southeast of the Sikh state. In the wider world of empires, the British no longer considered the Sikh Empire a useful buffer zone in case of expansion of the Russian Empire into Afghanistan and northern India – the so-called Great Game. The Sikhs would now have to fight the seemingly unstoppable armies of the East India Company.

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[occasionallyrelenting]

I prayyy that the line where Laszlo says his turban is "a gift from my good friend the Maharaja Duleep Singh" is an intentional joke. Top 10 worst references to put down for your cultural appropriation pass application. Excuses that would have had most Brits scratching their ears by 1865

[the-history-of-fighting]

The Indian Suffragettes of Britain

Indian suffragettes Lolita Roy (top), Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (middle) and both pictured together in the middle of the bottom picture.

who used her privileged position to help the suffrage cause.

Bottom - Both women pictured together (centre of the picture).

[deforest]

i’m listening to a great podcast on the history of the koh-i-noor diamond and oh my god 4 hours of this just isn’t enough. i’m riveted. i just got to the part where maharaja duleep singh’s daughter is a lesbian and runs away with the love of her life while this cursed diamond just keeps killing and dooming men. amazing

[shrieksatmidnight]

With the amount people upset about historical accuracy with Yasuke in Assassin's Creed Shadows, it's kind of why? Yeah, AC is known for it's historical accuracy but it's never completely accurate either. At it's heart AC is science fiction with a historical fictional slant to it. The developers are engaging the era from a storytelling and gameplay sense to draw peoples interest. Yes, he was a koshō (page),but though think about it, how many of you would actually play the game then(if he was a page). Be honest. It would be a interesting historical drama for sure(Maybe Visual Novel?).

If you want to be upset with historical accuracy in an AC game let me point you to Syndicate with it's completely white population(exception of Duleep Singh & Jayadeep Mir(Henry Green)) of London, which massively failed to represent the number of different people from several of the british colonies.

And anyone who wants to say that the Japanese would be upset, no they wouldn't, because he appeared in several pieces of Japanese media that aren't completely historical accurate. He never played baseball. It would be saying americans would be upset with a commercial depicting George Washington driving a car(they weren't). It's like watching a episode of Dr Who and getting mad that they said Queen Victoria and her descendants are werewolves(Maybe the Royal Family was upset).

Historical figures are often reworked in pop culture to in order tell stories you probably haven't thought or weren't aware of yet. If that bothers you, then maybe don't interact with historical fiction then?

[queerasfact]

Do you have Catherine Duleep Singh on your list? Just heard about her for the first time today and was hoping you already had an episode on her so I could immediately learn more, but didn't find one.

She is indeed on our list, but we don’t have an episode on her as yet!

-Alice

[valkyries-things]

CATHERINE HILDA DULEEP SINGH // SUFFRAGETTE

“She was a suffragette, and a Princess of the Sikh Empire. She had a lifelong romantic companion of governess Lina Schäfer and from 1904 lived with her in Germany until the latter’s death. The both of them were instrumental in aiding many Jewish families escape from Germany during World War II.”

(right photo in centre with sisters Bamba (left) and Sophia (right))

[glitchedsecrets]

i love playing syndicate because every now and then i have one of the most absurd bugs i've seen in a while, then i have to act like it's normal example of the day: jacob walking towards the carriage at the end of 'the great jewel heist' and managing to (somehow) blast the carriage with enough force that the entire thing, and every npc attached to it, gets launched at high speeds away, preventing the cutscene from actually working.

i ended up staring at duleep singh and this guard who kept walking in and out of frame for a couple of minutes until i tried starting the game. it took four whole tries to get this to not happen, and im not sure what i did different that fourth time to cause any change. this is one of my favorite games i've played /gen /pos

[beamorgan]

I'm reading Sophia by Anita Anand, which is about the British Indian suffragist Sophia Duleep Singh, and there's a quote from Queen Victoria about Sophia's father, a former child Maharajah whose kingdom was stolen by British fuckery:

"I always feel so much for these deposed Indian princes."