THE INDIAN SEDITION.
Maharajah Dhnlerp Sing-li
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who is inspected of being the author of an anonymous'circular urging the natives In the Faujanb to rise against the English, is a ■on of the famous Rnnjeet Singh, the Rajah of thePunjiub, and was born in 1833. Dhuleep was an infant when h's father died, and the demoralised state of the regency induced the British Ministry to annex the p incipality under certain Conditions; one being that the young Maharajah rhonld receive four lacs of rupees, equivalent to £40,0C0 sterling per a annul. After wards the Maharajah became a Christian, took up his abode {it England and was naturalised, HU
mother the notorious Ronee, and also re sided in England until be" death, In 18'3, but resisted steadfastly all persuasion to become a convert to Christianity. It was at one time supposed that the Maharajah would take for a wife the Princess Victoria of Coorg ; but in 1864 he was married at the British 0 nsnlrte at Alexandria to a young Protestant a British subject Foma time ago the Maharajah became involved in financial difficulties and sold his ©state near Thetford.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1343, 16 September 1886, Page 3
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192THE INDIAN SEDITION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1343, 16 September 1886, Page 3
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