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03302aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 699585A2B41B11E4B48B3FA5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 140605s2015 nyuaf b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9781632860811 020 $a 1632860813 035 $a (OCoLC)881092758 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ZNS $d UOK $d SILO 043 $a a-ii--- 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Anand, Anita, $e author 245 10 $a Sophia : $b princess, suffragette, revolutionary / $c Anita Anand 246 30 $a Princess, suffragette, revolutionary 250 $a First U.S. edition 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2015 300 $a xiii, 416 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page [398]-401) and index 520 $a In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and exotic birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace and favor lodgings at Hampton Court Palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pages. But when, in secret defiance of the British government, she travelled to India, she returned a revolutionary. Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality, a far cry from the life to which she was born. Her causes were the struggle for Indian Independence, the fate of the lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War--and, above all, the fight for female suffrage. She was bold and fearless, attacking politicians, putting herself in the front line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields. Meticulously researched and passionately written, this enthralling story of the rise of women and the fall of empire introduces an extraordinary individual and her part in the defining moments of recent British and Indian history 600 10 $a Duleep Singh, Sophia Alexandra $c Princess, $d 1876-1948 650 0 $a Princesses $z India $v Biography 650 0 $a Revolutionaries $z India $v Biography 650 0 $a Suffragists $z India $v Biography 651 0 $a India $x History $y British occupation, 1765-1947 941 $a 9 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305033721.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331012531.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508021544.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006083300.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180103011859.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20160506011044.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011011.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20151215010606.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20150603012549.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=699585A2B41B11E4B48B3FA5DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search