Maharaaja Duleep Singh- Sohan Singh Seetal

Maharaja Duleep Singh captures the poignant and dramatic biography of the last sovereign ruler of the Sikh Empire, tracing his journey from a child king to an exiled figure in Europe. Proclaimed Maharaja of Punjab at just five years old following the death of his father, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Duleep Singh was stripped of his kingdom, his wealth—including the legendary Koh-i-Noor diamond—and separated from his mother, Maharani Jind Kaur, following the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the British annexation of Punjab. Sent into exile in England as a teenager, he was forcibly converted to Christianity, integrated into Victorian high society, and favored by Queen Victoria, yet he remained deeply unsettled by his lost identity. The narrative delves into his eventual reunion with his mother, his awakening to the betrayal of colonial rule, his return to Sikhism, and his desperate, tragic attempts to reclaim his ancestral sovereign rights before dying in penury in Paris.