Jind Kaur (1817–1863), maharani and regent of Lahore, was born in 1817 in the village of Chhahar, Sialkot district, Punjab (now in Pakistan), the eldest child of the three daughters and two sons of Manna Singh Aulakh, a Sikh of the Jat...
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Sir Bhupinder Singh (1891–1938) by Vandyk, 1911 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Barbara N. Ramusack
Singh, Sir Bhupinder (1891–1938), maharaja of Patiala, was born on 12 October 1891 in the city of Patiala, Punjab, India, the eldest son of Maharaja Rajinder Singh (1872–1900), and his first wife, who died in 1897. Upon the death of his father in November 1900 he succeeded to the throne of the largest Sikh-ruled state in ...
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Duleep Singh (1838–1893) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1854 The Royal Collection © 2004 HM Queen Elizabeth II
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Amandeep Singh Madra
Singh, Duleep (1838–1893), maharaja of Lahore, was born in Lahore on 6 September 1838, the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) and Rani Jindan Kaur (1817–1863). With the death of Ranjit Singh came chaos and mayhem as his prized Khalsa army, the lynchpin of his control of the ...
