Duleep Singh
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Duleep Singh (1838-1893) was the most controversial Maharaja during the Sikh Raj of Punjab. Duleep Singh was the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Maharani Jind Kaur.
Maharajah Duleep Singh, the Maharajah of Lahore and King of the Sikh Empire, was born on the 6th September 1838. The son of the legendary Lion of the Punjab - Maharajah Ranjit Singh, and the Messalina of the Punjab - Maharani Jind Kaur, the young Duleep Singh came to the throne of Punjab in 1843 succeeding his half brother Maharajah Sher Singh. Maharajah Duleep Singh at Osbourne House, 1854 After the close of the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the subsequent annexation of the Punjab in 1849, he was deposed at the age of 11 by the East India Company, separated from his mother and sent to England. Maharajah Duleep Singh's a arrival to the shores of England in 1854 threw him into a different limelight. Her Majesty Queen Victoria showered affection upon the turbaned Maharajah, as did the Prince Consort.