#Maharajah

The MunshiAbdul Karimentered Queen Victoria’s service in 1887 as her personal Indian servantOil Painting/Portrait by Rudolf Swoboda @RCT In 1886, Queen commissioned him to paint Indian artisans who had been
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So I have yet another hero. Aimée Crocker inherited a fortune but refused to live a conventional life.She:- Orchestrated a drinking game with Oscar Wilde in the rough Barbary Coast
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Maharaja Ranbir Singh Bahadur greeting the then Prince of Wales in #Calcutta in 1875.This is an important meeting, for the Prince told the Maharaja, I've heard much of your state,
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Time to write a [THREAD].A mostly visual and illustrated thread about the uniforms of the Armies of the British Raj.Please note that I'm not an expert on the matter.My interest
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Thread covering :• Arrival of lahori fauj e khalsa • historical incident at the mozamjahi market in Hyderabad • allotment of area for the 1700 strong lahori fauj, • Construction
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1/ What does the Bank of England have to do with the Sikh Empire? 2/ Well the following small extract from Joseph Wolff's 1861 work, Travels and adventures of the
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Ravi beside Chauburjiand Ranjit Singh's Paddle Steamer___Included by Fakir Syed Aijazuddin in his illustrious book on Lahore is this sketch by an unknown lady circa 1852It shows a branch of
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Tragic news from Old Delhi: the dome of the Masjid Mubarak Begum (aka the Rundi ki Masjid) just collapsed.... Mubarak Begum was wife of Sir David Ochterlony. She started off
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The great and inimitable Muthuswamy Dikshithar was born in 1776 to the peerless composer Ramaswamy Dikshithar in the city of Thiruvarur (Kamalalayaksetra) ,he had two other brothers of whom Baluswamy
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(1) #Thread on the Fourth Exodus of Kashmiri HindusBefore proceeding, you can read about other exoduses of Kashmiri Hindus as well! https://twitter.com/GaikwadAnkur/status/1345008922143420416?s=20 #justiceforkashmirihindus (2)The 4th exodu
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1) Seeing a lot of attempts recently by NRIs in Canada & the usual Khan Market gang to drive an artificial wedge between Hindus & Sikhs in order to overtake
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A thread on #JammuGenocide / #JammuMartyrsDay In 1947, between Sept-Nov, more than 250,000 Muslims of Kashmir's Jammu region - equal to 1/4 of #RwandaGenocide victims - were killed in an
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THE FABIAN SOCIETY, OBAMA AND BLAIR[NEW THREAD] Please RT if you find this thread helpful Let's start with an excerpt from their own website: (1) "The Fabian Society has played
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