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U Gobbe (USA)

11/Jul/2010 04:36:25

Is there more information available about Bamba's mother Sophia like her full name, where she was born, what ethnic group(s) she came from and how she ended up being a slave.

Devshi Karavadra (Wisbech)

13/Jan/2010 08:38:14

I am thrilled to read your website. I am an Indian living in UK,not knowing much about Duleep Singh. Thetford is not far at all from where i live. Now your work has spiced me so much that it gives me immense pleasure to find out about what happen in past between sikhs and British. I think it wasn't Duleep Shing's fault to come to England but he was probably influenced by Saabs and their families when his powerful mother was imprisoned. The child was here on his own and in strange country, without his community fellows to guide him. I am sadden to learn what he might have gone through at that age and also Mai Jindan. I thank you for great work. It will familiarize many generations to know how great Ranjit Singh dynasty rested in UK. I will definately read your book 'Sovereign, Squire and Rebel'. Best wishes for future projects.

Mohinderpal Singh Sarang (Leeds, UK)

28/Aug/2009 12:05:15

A massive BIG thanks from all our family for bringing us your latest book: 'Sovereign, Squire and Rebel: Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Heirs of a Lost Kingdom'. Your hard work reflects in the precious pages of this book. In my opinion, this is probably the best ever written book about Mah. Duleep Singh that we have ever read. The information, references are in perfact order. I love the way you placed the pictures in order with the text, just superb. May Waheguru ji bless you and may you write many more wonderful books. Trillions of thanks.

dev deol (Vancouver,canada)

13/Aug/2009 08:52:20

Hi Love your site, it would be good if you could build upon your success by looking into the history of the femilies, the workers and their decendants at Elveden hall. There is also alot of Sikh art and weapons in UK, there is a small shop next to Christies Auction -Trafalgar square, thats selling original sikh kangra 1840 art ??!!? The royal armoury also has a huge collection of weapons, guns flags and drums from the 1st 2nd sikh wars. theres also endless number of decendants of the maharaja ranjit singh and the gurus like Mir mians decendant, or the Bhattis, the family that employed Guru nanaks dad, Faqir Khana Museum, Lahore that have amazing treasure troves. whats the next part of your project ?

Khushwant Ahluwalia

01/Aug/2009 04:48:40

Sir Lepel Griffin writes that Duleep Singh was not Ranjit Singh's son. Any evidence to counter his argument?

tejveer singh nandra (hounslow)

28/Jul/2009 07:11:39

i have been looking at sikh history as a hobby to see what my sikh history have done thank you for this website where i can learn about are last king.. but shouldnt the english goverment hand half the rights of the crown to the sikh commuinty as that stone belongs to the sikhs.

Leslie Sutain-Mai Jindan

20/Jul/2009 02:43:02

Duleep Singh has reincarnated as Ranjit Singhs prophesied son. 'There will be agitation in London & Russia when Duleep Singh will unite the World in a new faith' The 300 page book with photo's and dates will prove this and more....Mai Jindan

Preet Singh

23/Jun/2009 02:23:21

we must try and get the artifacts of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Dulip Singh back to a Sikh museum where they belong

Veronica Coak (Cornwall)

06/Oct/2008 07:11:38

Well set up and fascinating site. My greatx3 grandfather's sister was a Ladies Maid at Elvendon, her name is on the 1871 Census, Anne Humphries, I think she may have worked with the family in Wimbledon too. Thank you for putting all this online, it gives a rich insight into the time.

Amarjite Singh Roudh (Cardiff, Wales)

28/Jul/2008 02:23:26

vey good source of information and gives the chance for the younger generation to trace their history history in the UK.

Suki Talwar

09/Jun/2008 08:53:24

I think this is a great resource for people to educate themselves about Duleep Singh. I would love to engage with a project like this in any capacity possible.

Jacquie Bell

02/Jun/2008 08:38:58

I wa playing around on the internet today. Put in my house address trying to find something. A connection to Lahore came up. This interested me as I knew my house had connection with an Indian Princess but I thought she was from Lucknow. Instead I found the connection with Princess Bamba , daughter of Duleep Singh. Her husband Lt Col Sutherland died at Braeside Belhaven Dunbar in April 1939. She died in Lahore in 1957.

Ravinder Raipury (Charda Punjab)

03/May/2008 07:05:49

I m Ravinder Raipury a Painting Artist, from Charda Punjab. I like very much this site, Congrate 2 Good work, Best Wishes.

Gurjeet Singh Khera

20/Apr/2008 10:39:19

good site for punjabi's new genration for his proudy past.lots of knowlege about Maharaja Ranjeet Singh,Maharaja Duleep Singh , Maharani Jind Kaur and his stuglefull life.

Gurjeet Singh Khera

20/Apr/2008 08:37:29

good site for punjabi's new genration for his proudy past.lots of knowlege about Maharaja Ranjeet Singh,Maharaja Duleep Singh , Maharani Jind Kaur and his stuglefull life.

Dr Manmohan Singh Sekhon (Coventry)

15/Apr/2008 03:16:01

Tere sadke jawan. Very good work. Very good effort to save our roots. When I read Maharani Jindan's story in childhood in Ajit newspaper, I really cried and thought a lot about Maharaja Duleep Singh. It was very touching story. Now I live in UK, I realised nothing changed much over last 200 years. Still we are struggling to save our culture and religion just like Maharaja Duleep Singh. I am very very thankful to you for doing so much for our history and culture. All the best. sat sri akal , www.drsingh.org.uk

dr manmohan singh sekhon (Coventry, UK)

13/Apr/2008 08:36:35

Susan Leiderman

07/Apr/2008 08:35:28

Hello - I am doing some personal research and hoping you can help me. Duleep Singh evidently travelled with an Indian party to England for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Is this so, and if so, do you have the names of the persons in that party? Many thanks for your consideration and assistance, Regards, Susan Leiderman

colin dhillon (Toronto, Canada)

02/Apr/2008 08:33:51

Peter, I would like to congratulate you and your team on all the work you have put into, both the Duleep singhs and Sikh history in the UK. I am a young Sikh myself who was born in Tipton, West Midlands, but currently reside in Toronto, Canada. Like you, i too am quite the history buff, enjoying all things Sikh in world history.

Gurjit Singh

24/Mar/2008 06:00:08

Excellent website. Keep up the good work. I often wonder what would have been the fate and shape of India today had the Sikhs not been betrayed by their own people and therefore fought successfully against the British. The British would have been defeated and hence would make their stay in India very difficult and eventually the victorious Sikhs would have found it irresistable to hound the British out of India altogether leaving the Sikh rule extended to the whole of India. Today we would have had a glorious Sikh royal family, and who knows, maybe we would have never needed to leave India to migrate to other countries around the world after the bloody partition. There definately wouldn't have been the creation of Pakistan, and Sikhs would have been the main players in the World Affairs today, with their own country. Instead we have been reduced to mere taxi drivers, getting beats from westerners for being mistaken as Muslims, getting ethnic cleansed by the Indians in India for being a minority, and getting back stabbed by our own community for monetary gains. I look forward to the prophecy of 'Raj Karega Khalsa' to forment one more time, even though I'm fully aware that I might have to take many births before that dream is to be realised.

Sarvpartap Singh Wander (India)

21/Mar/2008 04:22:15

hi jst wanna say...its such an amazing research u guys have done....

Sukhdev Singh (Mandi, Ferozpur)

18/Feb/2008 10:44:57

Sat Shri Akal Ji, My self Sukhdev Singh from Mandi Ladhuka, Teh Fazilka, Distt Ferozepur, Punjab. By profession, I am a Mechanical Engineer & working as a Senior Manager in a pvt. ltd. company at Faridabad , Haryana. I have full faith in Sikh Gurus and Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. I have great Interest in Sikh History, Punjab History and Anglo Sikh relations. Being a Mechanical Engineer & having a responsible post, still I try to find a little time to know about the great history of my Punjab. Generaly I sit on Net and go on searching for different articals related to sikh history. From last one week or two, I was studying different articles related to Maharaja Duleep Singh Ji and his great Family. I was surprise to find so many new things/ideas about him which I never knew before. At the same time, I got confused as well as sad so many time. Then only I came to know about you and brilliant efforts made by you and your family, to show the truth to the whole world. The work you have done needs appriciation, not from Punjab only but from the whole world. Today again, I am sitting on my compuer and find that you are in Punjab itself....!!! What a pleasant surprise...!!! (www.punjabheritage.org). I welcome you in the Punjab, Your Punjab...!! Our Punjab..!! I found an article, stating that 'NRI historian rediscovers Maharajas of Punjab'. & after downloading that article, I came to know that this is not other than Mr. Peter Bance..!! I thought so many time to give you a mail but could not find time. When I came to know that you are in Punjab itself, then I could not stop myself. I have so many questions/doubts in my mind, which I will try to share with you later-on. Once again I salute you for efforts made by you for bringing the truth to the world. Wishing your Happy stay in Punjab.

BHUPINER SINGH (Adelaide, Australia)

03/Oct/2007 04:40:41

An excellent site to preseve the memory of Maharaja Duleep Singh, and the history of the period that we must not forget. Historians, and the sikh communty, are indebted to you. THANKS. Bhupi Singh.3 Oct 2007

Rhonda Kauth

27/Sep/2007 04:39:24

Found your site whilst Googling Duleep; inspired for more info after reading "To The Heart of the Nile" where the Maharaja & Sir Samuel Baker are just observers of a slave auction, when suddenly, Sam starts bidding on the "slave" woman who would become Lady Baker..

Mrs Liz Goodyer

29/Aug/2007 04:35:59

My husband Ted is the great great grandson of the Revd William James Jay who was rector of Elveden and chaplain to Maharajah Duleep Singh. William Jay died at Elveden and was buried there in 1869. William was also godfather to one of Duleep Singh's children together with Queen Victoria. Prince Frederick Duleep Singh also traced and published the ancestry of the Jays and the Osbornes.

Tanmeet Singh

22/May/2007 04:33:03

thanks for spreading our rich culture

Sally Kraus

21/May/2007 04:29:51

I liked your site

Barry Smith (Kensal Green, London)

08/May/2007 04:28:24

Greetings, I am the chairman of The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. As you are no doubt aware both the Rajah of Coorg and the Maharanee Jindan Kowr rested in the catacomb below the Dissenters' Chapel at Kensal Green Cemetery before being returned to India for cremation. We have recently found the damaged monumental stome that would have sealed the loculi holding the coffin of the Maharanee. The stone is broken and we are having it restored. I would be pleased to hear from you if you think it would be possible to translate the inscription on the stone.

Simon Pryke

11/Jan/2007 04:25:34

I was fascinated to discover your website. My grandmother had told me that my great great grandfather, William Pryke served as a footman to the 'Black Prince' at Thetford, where he met my great great grandmother. I wonder if you have come across any reference to him in your research? I am looking through our family records to see if we have preserved anything connected to Duleep Singh that might be of wider interest.

Les cocker (Whitby, N.Yorkshire)

22/Oct/2006 04:23:36

Our local paper the whitby gazette has today published a story Regarding Duleep Singh It relates to a road being built while he was resident at Mulgrave Castle Whitby North yorks

Fakir iftikhar (Lahore, Pakistan)

25/Jul/2006 04:18:33

Amazing website. I am fakir Iftikhar from Lahore Fakir Khana Museum. We are the care takers of the Relics of mahraja Ranjit Singh. plz feel free to browse www.fakirkhana.com 25.7.06

Dr. (Kunwarji) Sumerendra Vir Singh Chauhan (India)

18/Jun/2006 04:15:56

I am the great great grandson of Wazir (Prime Minister) Ishwari Singh Katoch of Kangra, who was the younger cousin of Maharaja Sansar Chand of Kangra. The Maharaja Sansar Chand was Maharaja Ranjit Singh's father-in-law. My mother knows a lot about family history which has been unpublished in the history books, just kept alive for us within the family. There are a lot of misconceptions about Duleep and his father, things I wish were cleared sooner. Glad to see you are taking an active role. Cheers,

Jaswinder Singh Johal (Wimbledon)

18/Apr/2006 04:13:46

I don't have anything to add to your arsenal of information of the Sukerwalia family (or the Sikh Royal Family), other than to commend your work. Whether a person respects Duleep Singh or not, one can still be amazed that he was the descendant of a great empire. Sometimes, the only thing that can motivate a generation is good, accurate history - and a few role models. I think what you done in collecting inforamation on the family will be admired by many historians to come. When I was young, I was first told of the history of the Sikh Royal Family by my grandfather (who was directly involved in the border violence in 1947). But there was very little written documentation that I could source and read for myself. I was desperate for anything that I could read on the subject. What made it more frustrating was that none of my Punjabi friends even knew these names. I remember that the only thing I knew was the name: "Maharajah Ranjeet Singh" or "Duleep Singh". I read the private letters of Queen Victoria, and any other texts that I could devour, always looking at the indexes searching for terms like: Sikh, seek, seikh, Runjeet, Ranjeet, Ranjit and so on - as there was no standardised spelling! When I read "The Maharajah Box" by Christie Campbell, that book filled all the gaps in my mind with the missing information. I felt proud and saddened at the same time when reading about Duleep Singh's life. I particularly found the following incident very upsetting: When Duleep Singh had gone to India to take the Ashes of his mother back, Sikh Soldiers were returning from the Crimean War. They heard that their King was back and began to cry, "Bole So nial, Sat sri akaal", and Duleep Singh could not bear the noise or the smell, so he closed his windows on them. I was born and bred in England, and I'd like to finish on a spiritual note (which I hope you are not offended by). I am a clean shaven sikh, so probably not the best Sikh in the world, but I try to be good to my fellow man. I feel that I am on journey to understand and empower the individual (without the need of priests and soothsayers) and to follow my religion when I can. My mother told me that people bow down at Duleep Singh's grave (as if he were a Guru). Well, I will go to Elvenden one day soon, and take my own son (and explain to him where he is), but I can only respect him as a man, and a son of a great King, but I always hear the words of my grandfather: "Only bow down to the Guru granth Sahib and your parents - respect everyone else". Once again, good luck with the work that you are doing with Gurinder Chadha, and I will continue on my own journey.