They took his kingdom, his name, his faith—and almost erased him from history.
Documentary about the last Maharajah of the Punjab, Duleep Singh, who was wrenched from his mother's arms as a child in the 1840s and put into the care of an official of the British Empire.
Writing
Reclaims a life the British tried to bury.
Production
Elegant reconstruction of a stolen childhood.
Director
Chris Durlacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Duleep Singh's descendants still campaign for the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, making this documentary uncomfortably current.
Queen Victoria became godmother to Duleep's children—a grotesque family photo op that this documentary frames perfectly.
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