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Jind Kaur

1817–1863

Jind Kaur was the mother and regent of Maharaja Duleep Singh and a leading figure in the final years of the Sikh Empire. She struggled against court factions and expanding British control, was imprisoned and separated from her son, and later reunited with him in exile.

Jind Kaur was born in Gujranwala and died in England. As mother and regent for the young Maharaja Duleep Singh, Jind Kaur became a major political figure in Lahore after Ranjit Singh’s death; the British removed her from power, imprisoned and exiled her, and she was later reunited with her son.

George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Mountain of Light makes Maharani Jind Kaur one of the dominant figures at Lahore, where the regent, the child maharaja Duleep Singh and the Khalsa army pull British agents into the unstable politics preceding the First Anglo-Sikh War. Amarpal Singh’s The First Anglo-Sikh War reconstructs her historical regency and the court crisis that accompanied the army’s move towards the Sutlej. The Second Anglo-Sikh War follows the restricted post-war state, British intervention in the regency and Jind Kaur’s removal from power, showing how the settlement of the first war helped prepare the annexation of the Punjab.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Jind Kaur (1 series)

The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2(80,547)

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Jind Kaur (2 books)

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