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The Maharajah and the Kohinoor
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Date:
Thu 11 Mar 2010
Time:
7:30pm
Venue:
The Drum144 Potters Lane, Aston , Birmingham, B6 4UU
Age Limit:
N/A
The Maharajah and the Kohinoor
Duleep Singh, the “Black Prince of Perthshire”, was deposed as Maharajah of Lahore at the age of eleven and sent to England, where he was immediately adopted by Queen Victoria and high society. Christianised and educated in Scotland, Duleep continued to dream of a triumphant return to the Punjab at the head of a Sikh army, forming alliances with Irish revolutionaries and the Russian government to this end. Yet the last Sikh emperor was eventually left isolated by the machinations of political rivals, dying of an epileptic fit in Paris in 1893 upon realising his second wife was a British government spy.
This play tells his story: of thwarted love, political intrigue, and the machinations of the Raj.