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his letter in one from Sir John Login so that it would not be intercepted or dismissed as a forgery. The Resident reported that the Rani had 'much changed, was blind and had lost much of the energy which formerly characterised her.' The British decided that she was no longer a threat and on 16 January 1861 she was permitted to join her son at
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on his behalf and find out how his mother was managing. This attempt was also doomed to failure and the Pundit was forbidden to contact the Maharani. Duleep Singh then decided to go himself, using the pretext of a tiger shoot in Bengal. In 1860 he wrote to the British Resident in Kathmandu, enclosing
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Following Punjab's annexation, the British imprisoned the Rani in Chunnar fort near Varanasi. However, two years later in 1849, she managed to escape from the fort disguised as a maid and traveled 800 km north to reach Kathmandu. Initially, she stayed at the residence of Amar Bikram Shah, son of
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The mid-19th century was a time of great political upheaval in the Indian subcontinent with expanding British power. Noting the common adversary in the British, Nepal's Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa and Maharaja Ranjit Singh forged a secret alliance against the British. However, Maharaja Ranjit Singh
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On 7 June 1864 her son Duleep Singh married Bamba MĂźller, daughter of Ludwig and Sofia MĂźller, by whom he had four sons, one of whom died in infancy, and three daughters. After the death of his first wife he married Ada Wetherill, daughter of Charles and Sarah Wetherill, and had two more daughters.
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was one of the key officials engaged in forging an alliance between Nepal and Punjab against the British when Maharaja Ranjit Singh was alive. She stayed in Amar Bikram Shah's house for a few months before she decided to come out of her hiding and approach the then Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana.
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and reduced her pension to 48,000 rupees. The bitterest blow to the Maharani was the separation from her 9-year-old son. She wrote to Lawrence imploring him to return Duleep to her. "He has no sister, no brother. He has no uncle, senior or junior. His father he has lost. To whose care has he been
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and declared himself to be the ruler of the Punjab. A force commanded by Chatar Singh besieged the fort and forced him to surrender on the promise of a safe conduct. However Jawahar Singh had decided that he posed too great a risk to the young Maharaja and he was secretly taken back to Attock and
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province and a powerful and influential member of the Sikh nobility. Army pay was increased. Gulab Singh was brought to Lahore to face charges of treachery and his nephew, Hira Singh, was replaced as wazir by Jawahar Singh. Gulab Singh was allowed to return to Jammu after paying a fine of 6,800,000
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in Yorkshire. Attempts were made to arrange a separate establishment for her on the estate, but she was determined not to be separated from her son again. In the last two years of her life she reminded the Maharaja of his Sikh heritage and told him of the empire that had once been his, sowing the
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Aulakh and an elder sister, who married Sardar Jawala Singh Padhania, the Chief of Padhana in the Lahore District. Manna Singh extolled Jind Kaur's beauty and virtues to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who summoned and married her in 1835 by sending his 'arrow and sword' to the village. On 6 September 1838
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she was replaced in December 1846 by a Council of Regency, under the control of a British Resident. However, her power and influence continued and, to counter this, the British imprisoned and exiled her. Over thirteen years passed before she was again permitted to see her son, who was taken to
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are described fully elsewhere. The Sikhs lost the war, due, they claimed, to the treachery of their commander-in-chief, Lal Singh and Raja Tej Singh, who failed to attack when the British were at his mercy during the battle of Ferozeshah and later sank the Sikh bridge of boats in the
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Rani Jind Kaur became the regent in 1843, as her son King Duleep Singh was still an infant. Led by her, Punjab went to war with the British in 1845. Lahore sent for help to Kathmandu, but the court in Kathmandu was divided and King Rajendra Bikram Shah did not respond positively.
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sent the Governor-General of India a letter which he had intercepted from Duleep Singh to Jind Kaur, suggesting that she come to England. The letter was dismissed as a forgery. However, shortly afterwards Duleep Singh commissioned Pundit
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In tackling these problems, the Maharani had the advice and support of the newly appointed council of elder statesmen and military leaders. To strengthen her power base, Jind Kaur betrothed Duleep Singh to the daughter of
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Pashaura Singh arrived in Lahore in January 1845. He was received with honour but was persuaded to return to his estates by the army and a promise of an increase in his jagir. However, in July he took the fort at
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and an allowance was set by the Nepali government. The British Resident in Kathmandu kept an eye on her, believing that she was still intriguing to revive the Sikh dynasty. She lived in Nepal for 11 years.
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After the assassinations of Ranjit Singh's first three successors, Duleep Singh came to power in September 1843 at the age of 5 and Jind Kaur became Regent on her son's behalf. After the Sikhs lost the
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in Lahore. In 1997, a marble headstone with her name was uncovered during restorations at the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green and in 2009 a memorial to the Maharani was installed at the site.
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During the passage to England, Duleep Singh wrote to Sir John Login, who had been his guardian throughout his adolescence in British hands, asking him to find a house for his mother near
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and uncle of Hira Singh, had taken most of the Lahore Treasury. The power struggle between the various Sikh factions was continuing and some were secretly negotiating with the British
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was illegal in Great Britain before 1885 and Duleep Singh was refused permission to take his mother's body to the Punjab, so it was kept for a while in the Dissenters' Chapel in
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seeds that twenty years later led him to research for weeks in the British Library and to petition Queen Victoria, hoping naĂŻvely to remedy the injustice he had suffered.
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and restored a balance between the army and the civil administration. She held court, transacted State business in public and reviewed and addressed the troops.
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A year later she escaped from the Chunar Fort, disguised as a servant, and travelled through 800 miles of forest to ask for sanctuary in Nepal. She arrived at
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Since she was the daughter of his friend-officer who hailed from a nearby village (Chichrianwali) of his own birth-place, Gujranwala
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had been denied by British authorities. The memorial in Bombay was maintained by the Kapurthala State authorities until 1924, when
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shows her wearing some of the jewels, including the emerald and pearl necklace, which was sold by auction on 8 October 2009 at
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While in India Duleep Singh had negotiated the return of the Maharani's jewellery, which had been kept in the treasury at
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strangled. For his involvement in this, Jawahar Singh was stabbed to death in front of his sister, the agonised Maharani.
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a book inspired of her life. She is also a major character in George MacDonald Fraser's comic historical novel
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In the morning of 1 August 1863 Maharani Jind Kaur died peacefully in her sleep in Abingdon House, Kensington.
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After the death of Ranjit Singh, Jind Kaur and her son lived in relative obscurity under the care of Raja
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Telegram on Maharani Jind Kaur's death, sent by Duleep Singh to his guardian Sir John Login, 1863
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in India, where it was cremated, and he erected a small samadhi in memory of his mother on the
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Jind Kaur Aulakh was born in Chachar, Gujranwala, the daughter of Manna Singh Aulakh, into an
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After the war the British rewarded the leaders who had helped them, including Lal Singh and
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and took her with him back to England, where she remained until her death in
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All his children died without issue. One, by Duleep Singh's first marriage,
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entrusted?" She did not see her son again for thirteen and a half years.
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The killing of Jawahar Singh on 21 September 1845, as portrayed in the '
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died suddenly in 1839 and the Sikh Kingdom started to disintegrate.
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family the overseer of the royal kennels. She had an elder brother,
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In January 1861 Duleep Singh was allowed to meet his mother in
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The Rani was given asylum by the Prime Minister of Nepal and
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was dissolved on 29 March 1847 the Sikhs claimed her as the
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She was the youngest wife of the first Maharaja of the
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Royals and Rebels:The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
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Drawing of Maharani Jind Kaur rallying the Sikh troops
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Index

Maharani
Sikh Empire

George Richmond
Maharani
Sikh Empire
Duleep Singh
East India Company
Regent
Sikh Empire
Regency
Duleep Singh
Gujranwala
Sikh Empire
Punjab
Pakistan
Kensington
Middlesex
United Kingdom
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Issue
Maharaja Duleep Singh
House
Sukerchakia
Sikhism
Sikh Empire
Sikh Empire
Maharani
Duleep Singh
Sikh Empire

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