History News Desk !!! Dalip Singh (English: Duleep Singh, born: 6 September 1838, Lahore; died: 22 October 1893, Paris) was the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab. He was enthroned in 1843 AD at a minor age under the guardianship of his mother Rani Zinda. Dalip Singh’s government was involved in the First Sikh War (1845-46 AD), in which the Sikhs were defeated and were forced to surrender the entire area on the left side of the Sutlej River and Jalandhar Doab to the British and pay a compensation of one and a half crore rupees and enter into a treaty. Rani Zinda was stripped of the guardianship of the minor king and all his rights were vested in the council of the Sikhs.
The council trapped Dalip Singh’s government in the second war against the British Indian government in 1848 AD. This time too the Sikhs were defeated by the British and the British victors deposed Dalip Singh and annexed Punjab to the British empire. Dalip Singh was given an annual pension of five lakh rupees and soon after that he was sent to England with his mother, where Dalip Singh embraced Christianity and remained a landlord in Narkak for some time. During his stay in England, Dalip Singh visited Russia in 1887 AD and there made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Czar to attack India. Later he returned to India and again embraced his old Sikh religion and spent the rest of his life.
