Picture of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Hari Singh Nalwa

[DarshaPyasi1984]

I found this picture, I don't know if it is credible or not. In the middle, it is supposed to be Maharaja Ranjit Singh, in the back it is Hari Singh Nalwa, I am not sure about the rest.

[TigerForce1]

11 hours ago, DarshaPyasi1984 said:

I found this picture, I don't know if it is credible or not. In the, it is supposed to be Maharaja Ranjit Singh, in the back it is Hari Singh Nalwa, I am not sure about the rest.

Fake!  I remember this doing the WhatsApp rounds a few years back.

“The said portrait is in fact of Sher Ali Khan, Shah of Afghanistan wearing a karakul (black lamb’s wool cap) with Cd. Charles Chamberlain and Sir Richard F. Pollock. It is a camera picture taken at Ambala Durbar held in 1869. Amir Sher Ali Khan’s eldest brother Akbar Khan Muhammad had led the attack in which General Hari Singh Nalwa was martyred. Maharaja Ranjit Singh had died at the age of fifty nine in 1839 and Hari Singh Nalwa two years earlier in 1837. This photograph was taken thirty years later in 1869.”

[Dsinghd]

His beard is black. If the photo was real it would have been white. The first photograph was taken in 1830.

[puzzled]

Im surprised there is no photo of Maharani Jind Kaur. She even lived in the UK for a bit and there are several photos of Maharaja Duleep Singh but no photos of her. Maharaja Sher Singh was friends with the goreh and no photo of him either.  The earliest photos of Amrtisar are around 1840 i think. 

[jkvlondon]

3 hours ago, puzzled said:

Im surprised there is no photo of Maharani Jind Kaur. She even lived in the UK for a bit and there are several photos of Maharaja Duleep Singh but no photos of her. Maharaja Sher Singh was friends with the goreh and no photo of him either.  The earliest photos of Amrtisar are around 1840 i think. 

but there is a portrait I think

[puzzled]

4 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

but there is a portrait I think

Yeah there is a painting of her done by some gorah while she was in the UK. Think it was painted a few months before she died. From the painting you can tell that she must of been a very beautiful woman when she was young. Would of been great if we had a photo of her, she was a great personality and the British hated her. I read how the british dragged her across the floor out of the Lahore darbar by her hair while she was screaming for duleep singh.  The painting of Maharaja sher singh was painted by some European artist but it was done once he returned to his own country and not while sher singh was sitting in front of him.    

Sher singh was crap! Got to friendly with the goreh and became addicted to opium. He's hugely responsible for the downfall too

[Big_Tera]

The picture is obviously that of the infamous black beard from the pirates of the carribean.

[CHaamCHrick]

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