Ruler · 1838 – 1893

Duleep Singh

Lived 1838 – 1893. Maharaja of Punjab, Kashmir and Jammu of Sikh Empire, 1843 – 1849.

Wikidata's English label: Duleep Singh I.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1838 – 1893; 55 years
In office: 6 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Sikh Empire
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Maharaja of Punjab, Kashmir and Jammu

Sikh Empire · the 5th of 7 dated reigns · 1801 – 1849

1 before

Kharak Singh1839

Nau Nihal Singh1839 – 1840

Sher Singh1841 – 1843

Duleep Singh1843 – 1849

Gulab Singh1846

Jind Kaur1847

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1843 – 1849 · 6 years

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

He was subsequently deposed by the British East India Company and thereafter exiled to Britain at age 15 where he was befriended by Queen Victoria, who is reported to have written of the Punjabi Maharaja: "Those eyes and those teeth are too beautiful".

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