
Sophia – Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
The Princess Doth Protest • Sophia – Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand. New York: Bloomsbury USA bloomsbury.com anitaanand.com. 432 pages. Exhumed from obscurity, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) is celebrated in Anita Anand’s ambitious but often-didactic biography, Sophia–Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. The youngest daughter of Maharajah Duleep Singh—robbed of his kingdom when he was a child and brought to England at age 15—and the granddaughter of the “Lion of Punjab,” Maharajah Ranjit Singh, Sophia was born and raised in exiled English […]
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