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By Amandeep Madra on January 3, 2010
A JACKET with ancestral links to Norfolk which was expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000 at auction failed to sell. Items once treasured by the Maharajah Duleep Singh, who bought the Elveden Estate near Brandon in 1863, went under the hammer at Lyons and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh. A pair of crimson shoes [...]
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By admin on November 29, 2009
The Kothi where Rani Jindan was detained in a shambles writes Mahesh Sharma in The Tribune. Despite the keen interest shown by the world in the auction of a necklace of Rani Jindan, the Bassi canal rest house, popularly known as a “kothi”, where the queen and her last Sikh ruler son, Maharaja Duleep Singh [...]
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By admin on November 29, 2009
Auctioneers will on December 9 auction heritage items belonging to Maharajah Duleep Singh The first item under the hammer will be a velvet jacket that belonged to Maharajah Deleep Singh along with matching shoes described as ‘foliate decorated gold braid raised work on a crimson velvet ground’ These items remained the property of Maharajah Duleep [...]
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By admin on August 17, 2009
An Indian-origin writer has made the startling claim that Queen Victoria forbade the wife of the only married grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh from having children so that the British Raj could tighten its grip on Punjab.
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By admin on May 25, 2009
On 1 August 1863, shortly after 6:15 in the evening, a frail and partially-blind queen who had spent much of her life raging against the British Empire, died in her bed on the top floor of a Kensington townhouse.
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By admin on September 2, 2008
A previously unknown marble bust of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh will soon be on the auctioneers block in London. This stunning piece crafted in Europe in the 19th century is expected to reach $100-140,000 and is redolent of the Duleep Singh sculpture by Royal Academician John Gibson (1790-1866) that fetched a staggering £1.7m in 2007. [...]
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By admin on March 23, 2008
The answer is a Royal Family. It may be nearly 4,000 miles away from the baking plains of the Punjab and slightly less awe inspiring than the glinting domes of the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest shrine, but the Norfolk market town of Thetford has become an unlikely place of pilgrimage for the world's [...]
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By admin on December 7, 2007
In the quiet churchyard of St Andrew's, Blo Norton, by the Little Ouse near the Suffolk border of Norfolk, beneath a lichen-covered gravestone, lies Prince Frederick Duleep Singh – far from his ancestral Punjab.
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By Amandeep Madra on June 10, 2007
Today see's the launch of a brand new initiative by UKPHA to present its series of Sikh Arts and Heritage Lectures on an innovative new web platform. This exciting new website has been designed to show the presenter and their visuals as they were delivered during the groundbreaking 2003/4 series of lectures that toured the UK. [...]
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By admin on April 22, 2007
Mystery surrounds the secretive buyer who stunned the art world paying £1.7M for the sculpture of Maharaja Duleep Singh auctioned by Bonhams of London on 19 April. The portrait bust of Maharajah Duleep Singh made in Rome in 1859 by the Welsh-born Royal Academician John Gibson provides a tantalising glimpse into the story of a [...]
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