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The Revd. William James Jay
1827- 1869
William James Jay was Curate of Goldhanger between 1847 and 1849 and is listed in the White’s Directory of 1848 as Curate at the time when Revd. C.B. Leigh was the Rector. After less that two years at Goldhanger he joined the East India Company and moved to India. He worked for the Company throughout the Mutiny period and while at Fatehgarh in Uttar Pradesh instructed the young Maharajah Duleep Singh, who was the last Maharaja of Lahore and of the Sikh Empire.The Maharajah was converted to a Christianity, and was baptised by the Revd. Jay in March, 1853.
the young Maharajah Duleep Singh | ||
the Maharajah’s original palace
| No photograph of the Revd. Jay has been found, but this picture of the Maharajah (on the right) with friends could include him. | |
From documents and websites now available it seems that the Revd. Jay played a significant part in the anglicising the very young Maharajah,and perh
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Duleep Singh
This article is about Maharaja Duleep/Dalip Singh. For other persons with similar names, see Dalip Singh (disambiguation). For other uses, see The Black Prince (disambiguation).
Maharaja of Punjab, Kashmir and Jammu
Maharaja Sir Duleep SinghGCSI (6 September 1838 – 22 October 1893), also spelled Dalip Singh,[1] and later in life nicknamed the "Black Prince of Perthshire",[2] was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was Maharaja Ranjit Singh's youngest son, the only child of Maharani Jind Kaur.[3]
He was placed in power in September 1843, at the age of five, with his mother ruling on his behalf, and after their defeat in the Anglo-Sikh War, under a British Resident. He was subsequently deposed by the British Crown, and thereafter exiled to Britain at age 15 where he was befriended by Queen Victoria, who is reported to have written of the Punjabi Maharaja: "Those eyes and those teeth are too beautiful".[4] The Quee
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“The Past Is a Foreign Country”: History as Representation in the Writings of William Dalrymple
Introduction: tourism, travel writing and beyond
William Dalrymple is a writer and historian who was born in Scotland in 1965, and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He attended boarding school at Ampleforth College and university at Cambridge, a background which would qualify him as privileged by most educational Clearly this is a simplification, not least because some tourists search for authenticity as much as travellers do (MacCannell [1976(MacCannell [ ] 1999cf. Lee 2012, 208). It is also based on the assumption, which itself has only become current fairly recently, that authenticity per se is desirable in ethical terms, not just in the sense of being true to oneself (Trilling 1972;Taylor 1992;Lowney 2009), but also, and more importantly for our purposes, in terms of engaging in genuine encounter with other cultures. In the same way that the traveller holds special sta