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Maharani Jindan Kaur – The Last Queen of the Punjab

Maharani Jindan was locked up. This powerful queen had to be kept away from her kingdom in Punjab, and her son the Maharaja, by order of the British East India company.

1849. The youngest queen of Sikh Emperor Ranjit Sing, Maharani Jindan was locked up in at Chunar fort, hundreds of miles from home. She was small, beautiful and powerful, and crucially she was the mother of 10-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh. She had to be kept away from her kingdom in Punjab, and her young son, by order of the British East India company. But nothing would keep her from her son.

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Written and presented by Alex von Tunzelmann
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