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2 beautiful peshawar pakistan, beige color, woolen hand made, rugs for sale measurements: 300 x 200 cms price £ 200 each (original price £) read more
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Her father, maharajah duleep singh, was heir to the kingdom of the sikhs, 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 peshawarit was a territory irresistible to the british, who plundered everything, including the fabled koh-i-noor diamondher 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 suffrageshe 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 battlefieldssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the slightly foxed best first biography prize winner of the eastern eye alchemy festival award for literature in sophia duleep singh was born into royaltysophia, god-daughter of queen victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace-and-favour lodgings at hampton court palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pagessophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality,a far cry from the life to which she was bornmeticulously 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 historyexiled to england, the dispossessed maharajah transformed his estate at elveden in suffolk into a moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and exotic birdsbut when, in secret defiance of the british government, she travelled to india, she returned a revolutionary
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