Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

‘’My Son, My Sun, the Sum of all that I Am,
My Love, My Life, My Lord, Light of my being
Yonder dwells cast away from a mothers yearning heart
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My Son, my lonely abandoned one, to trace the steps
Of a destined fate unchanged, unaltered for other ones
My hearts ache leaves my souls in darkness of a cave
My Son my shining star, my life’s one joy, so cast afar
Embittered with an evil counsel, estranged to his core
My son whom I so adore, abandoned I and one alone
Of foreign lands, and strangers smiles, of wiles and remiss
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Of haunting ghosts beseeching lament, a rage unspent, Lord
My Son, be abide in peace, in blissful retreat, in peace.
Of fathers long since parted, and spouses gone away
Of friends and followers, adorers and foes, leave behind shadows
Of former past glories and stories of past setting suns and ones to come.

My Son, my master and my soul, my aching heart imparts
For a vision of you, a glimpse to satiate these thirsted eyes
Cries weeping tears of blood for my little one alone, unsung.
My Son, My Sun, My life, My Love and My Light .....’’

 
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The legend of Maharajah Ranjit Singh, the last Emperor of the Greater states of the is retold with as many versions as narrators. It is said following his murder, his wife and young son were forced by the Angrez to sign over rights to the territories to the British who duly assigned the same to their favoured hangers on. The Mother and Son were brought to Prince Dalip was raised in the shires and kept wilfully and maliciously apart from his mother, who was held captive at Lancaster Gate. She wrote many letter beseeching the then reigning monarch, Queen Victoria for her own release and to see again her estranged and ill counselled against her, much loved Son. It was refused and Jinde finally expired, breathing her last at the age of 46. She was highly intelligent and indeed beautiful.
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Reasoning for the restraining of Jindan from access to her beloved Son can be deemed only as malicious. Her capture and retaining in isolation a similar brutal act. A Sikh hero arrived on these shores to assist her release and in slaying was murdered, shot dead. Indeed akin to similar events it seems a conspiracy of the indigenous reigning politicians, malevolence on the part of the invading British and what seems a contemptible aggressive need to inflict violence upon her senses. A tragic take indeed clouding the tale of the Great Conqueror that was Maharajah Ranjit Singh. His rallying and ease of acquisition of all the surrounding territories happy to be governed by Sikhs was probably partly the problem and cause for the following sinister and macabre actions ...

jeetijohal ji

Thanks for the poem. It reads like a mother's blessing. But why the :p? That one threw me.

Sat shri akal,
Maharajah Ranjit Singh no doubt was a great ruler and king but he was hinduised to a greater extent and more over I'm astonished when his name appears under the list of Jat rulers.

Sainty ji

He was actually Rajput -- which is sometimes listed with jat. Because of the long tradition of Rajputs as maharajas in the north and west, the Rajputs carried the image of leadership. And in fact the Rajput traditions were intermingled with Brahmin traditions for centuries and centuries. The singhsabha movement beginning in the later 19th Century was to weaken these intermingled patterns some what. But Hindu and Sikh ways were practiced side by side and this was ordinary reality -- and it still is.

Sat shri akal,:rofl !!::rofl!! :
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aadooo2 ji il go mad r u serious? im 102% sure that he was a jatt. just check it out

Saint Solider ji

If I am wrong then I am wrong and beg your forgiveness. Do you think you can dispense with the sarcasm?
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Sat shri akal,

with my sarcasm???