Peter Bance

Author • Historian • Art Collector • Maharajah Duleep Singh Biographer

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@SinghLions @cdivakaruni This is the problem when you start novelising historic characters to create a good story, people will begin to think that this is the historical truth and not perception of the writer!

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@Inkquisitive @mundheep Congrats bruv

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@RamblingSingh @TheSochPodcast Same thing happened to Sundar Singh Sagar in 1958 in manchester and it took 13 years for the Sikh community in Manchester to get the transport rules there overturned

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@AvonandsomerRob @BethRigby Astonishing thing is, that Crozier who was CEO of the post office at that time is now in charge of ITV who made the drama

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@Inkquisitive @mundheep Congrats bruv!

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Queen Victoria's son
Prince Arthur and Prince Alfred dressed by Maharajah Duleep Singh in 1854

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@blindlyfollowsu @khalsajatha He was not a Sikh at the time of his but a Christian. It was his own wish to be buried.

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Remembering Maharaja #Duleepsingh at a memorial service at Elveden Church who died #onthisday in 1893

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@borneoaman According to his own Will it was his wish to be buried not cremated. And he had reverted back to Christianity just before his death

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Sikh soldiers camped on the #westernfront, France 1914

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Warren Lodge - Hidden gem in the Forest at #Thetford. 14th century Hunting lodge once belonging to Maharajah #DuleepSingh

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Attending the Elveden Hall auction today, the former residence of Maharajah Duleep Singh
#duleepsingh @BawaRanjit

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Amazing afternoon at the Van Gough Immersive Experience in London
@vangoghartist

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Maharajah Duleep Singh’s Purdey shotgun from my collection featured in @BawaRanjit new music video

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Privileged to be part of the journey. Releases tomorow… @BawaRanjit

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Pleasure to part of this new track by @BawaRanjit paji on Maharajah Duleep Singh

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Beautiful swords from the Court of Tipu Sultan at the Victoria & Albert Museum

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@PlymouthChaz The flag was placed by the descendants of the Irish revolutionary David Casement who was hanged at Pentonville Prison. He was caught selling secrets to the Germans during WW1

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Remembering Shaheed Udham Singh who was hanged at Pentonville Prison on this very day.
Standing with Leena Dhingra the great niece of Madan Lal Dhingra, an indian revolutionary who was also hanged at Pentonville in 1909

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Memorial is finally erected at Princess Bamba’s husband Col David Sutherland’s unmarked grave in Dunbar, Scotland
#duleepsingh