![]() Anand successfully shows how the inner struggle between her native English culture and her Indian heritage wore on Sophia, While deeply involved in the early 20th-century militant suffrage movement, she also raised funds and helped nurse wounded Indians sent to England to recover during WWI. Journalist and BBC personality Anand writes a sympathetic biography that reads almost like a novel, illustrating how a forbidden trip to India changed the fashion-conscious party devotee into a woman seeking fulfillment in a society that relished her royal status and position as Queen Victoria’s goddaughter, but punished her for the color of her skin. ![]() As a ward of the British government born in exile, Indian princess Sophia Duleep Singh embodied a curious mix of East and West-and an equally intriguing combination of patriotism and socially conscious rebelliousness. ![]()
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