About the Book: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Winner of the Eastern Eye Alchemy Festival Award for Literature In 1876 Sophia
Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir
to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley
to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of
Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who
plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond. Exiled to
England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk
into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and