Dalip Singh

Dalip Singh

▪ Sikh maharaja
also spelled  Dhulip Singh 
born Sept. 1837, Lahore, India
died Oct. 22, 1893, Paris

      Sikh maharaja of Lahore (1843–49) during his childhood.

      Dalip was the son of Ranjit Singh, the powerful “Lion of Lahore,” who controlled the Punjab for nearly 50 years. After Ranjit's death (1839), assassinations and struggles for power prevailed, but the boy's mother, Rani Jindan, finally succeeded in having him proclaimed maharaja in 1843. Real power, however, remained in the hands of her brother Jawahir Singh and her Brahman lover. The Sikh army gained power daily, dismissed its foreign officers, and had doubled its strength from that in 1839 to more than 70,000 in 1845, when the First Sikh War (Sikh Wars) against the British erupted. A peace treaty in 1846 recognized Dalip as maharaja of a reduced Sikh kingdom and made him a ward of the government of British India, whose resident at Lahore ruled in his name.

      In 1848 an anti-British outbreak at Multan and another in Hazara (both now in Pakistan) were allowed to develop into widespread Sikh risings that led to the Second Sikh War (1848–49). At the Battle of Gujrat (Gujrat, Battle of) (Feb. 21, 1849) the Sikhs were defeated, and in March the maharaja was deposed and his kingdom annexed to British India. Given a generous annual pension, he became a Christian and chose to live in England, where he was well received in society. In 1882, after an appeal for an increase in his pension was refused, he left England for France and repudiated Christianity.

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