Enjoy The Maharajahs Box Scripted By Christy Campbell Visible In Textbook

gave up on this about pageand I should have done it sooner, This gets so complicated that you just cannot give a damn anymore, Why hasn't this been adapted for a movie yet, I don't know,
A fantastic real life story about the last King of the Sikhs, how the British Empire robbed him of his lands, subjects, kingdom and vast riches.
The British act all pomp and circumstance, but are just rich in thieving and broken treaties, so no change there then, Expertly told as fact and with the storyteller's skill of fiction, great work by Christy here and made it relevant by linking the aged tale to modern day happenstance, of which there is plenty.

Much research and corroborated evidence, expertly written and thankful the story is kept alive of such a tragic yet absolutely regal character.
Well done Christy! I did not seriously persevere, just got bogged done with the names, lost interest, It got more and more complicated although there is a family tree at the beginning, What had attracted me to the book initially was the mystery of what happened in theth century when a Swiss bank listed an Indian princess among its account holders.
I had lived in Tunbridge Wells where the princess was said to have lived, so that sounded

inviting, However, the book is mostly about her father who must have had quite a life but he died in, so the bulk of the book takes place in theth century.
Didn't finish. Got a couple of chapters in and got very sick of the jumping around of the narrative and the endless full footnotes, It's a shame in the right hands I feel like this could have been great, This was a pretty exciting read, I thought it was well written and engaging, There were lots of jumps and a lot of information to keep track of, but I was never bored, The reason this didn't get a higher rating, however, was because this was a book I had to read for one of my most recent ghostwriting projects.
As a source, it was pretty weak, A lot of information was anecdotal, rather than evidencebased, which makes for a compelling story, but made me question how much of this book was fact rather than a fiction to sell copies.
I'm not hardline about popular history being heavily footnoted or referenced, however for me, there needs to be at least some evidence when trying to write a narrative of history, especially when quoting historical figures.
Detailed history of how the British Raj deposed the last Maharajah of the Punjab, Interesting political history but gets bogged down in minutiae, The politics of England, India, Russia and Germany give great insight to the turn of the century and lates,

I waded through the detail in the middle but you could just skim it, It is a sad story of the loss of a throne, country and the KohInoor diamond, Read the last chapter if you get bogged down The colourful narrative history of Duleep Singh, the last Emperor of the Sikhs and protégé of Queen Victoria, and his bizarre attempts to regain his kingdom of the Punjab from the British Empire in the lateth century.

In Julythe Swiss Bankers Association, under international pressure to atone for wartime compliance with Hitlers Germany, published a list of over,dormant accounts, untouched for over fifty years.
The names were supposedly those of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, but among them was an Indian princess, last heard of inliving in Penn, Bucks.


Intrigued, Christy Campbell, a journalist on the Sunday Telegraph, started to search the records, and so uncovered the remarkable story of how Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last Emperor of the Sikhs, was made by the British as a nineyearold into sign away his kingdom of the Punjab and give Queen Victoria the KohiNoor diamond the most celebrated diamond in the world, and the jewel in Britains Crown.


Duleep Singh, a virtual prisoner of Queen Victoria in England, began to dream of regaining his kingdom, and so embarked on a series of adventures involving Russia and the Great Game of Central Asia before finally begging Victorias forgiveness.
He had six children and died in, Today the Sikhs still claim their inheritance, including the KohiNoor and the nowdivided Punjab, .