Sophia : princess, suffragette, revolutionary

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Label

Sophia : princess, suffragette, revolutionary

Title remainder

princess, suffragette, revolutionary

Statement of responsibility

Anita Anand

Creator

• Anand, Anita

Author

• Anand, Anita

Subject

• Duleep Singh, Sophia Alexandra, 1876-1948
• Franchise (Right to vote)
• Great Britain
• History
• India
• India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
• Overseas item
• Advocacy
• Revolutionaries -- India -- Biography
• Royal Family
• Suffragists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Suffragists -- India -- Biography
• Women
• Princesses -- India -- Biography
• Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. 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 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-favour 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

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult