On the afternoon of 16th November 1910 three hundred
suffragettes left Caxton Hall in London in a fiery mood. Their plan
was to march through the winter streets to the House of Commons.
Marching shoulder to shoulder with Emmeline Pankhurst at the head
of the procession was Sophia Duleep Singh - princess-in-exile,
suffragette and revolutionary.
Born in 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was a dispossessed princess of
one of the greatest and most defiant empires of the Indian
subcontinent. Her father Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the
Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that included the mighty cities of
Lahore and Peshawar, stretching from the lush Kashmir Valley to the
craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass. It was an empire irresistible
to the British, who took everything, including the fabled Kohinoor
diamond. Sophia's mother was the illegitimate daughter of a German
businessman and an Abyssinian slave and her godmother was Queen
Victoria.
Brought up in Elvedon in Norfolk, in a house transformed to
resemble a Maharajah's palace replete with exotic animals, Sophia
was raised to be as genteel as any upper-class Englishwoman,
presented at court, living later at Hampton Court Palace, filling
the society pages with her new fashions. But at the age of
thirty-one, in 1907, she went secretly to India and returned a
revolutionary. Her causes were to be the struggle for Indian
Independence; the fate of the Lascars; the welfare of Indian
soldiers in the First World War - and the fight for female
suffrage.
Carefully researched and passionately written, this is an
enthralling story of an extraordinary woman who lived through some
of the most eventful times in British and Indian history, and
helped pave the way for women's rights in the 20th century.
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