The Saint-Soldier: Documentary on Bhai Maharaj Singh of Bhai Daya Singh Sampardaya (first Sikh in Singapore albeit as a captive of the british)

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This book looks interesting. Apparently it covers Bhai Maharaj SIngh Ji and his companion Khurakh Singh:

 

About the Book

Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Convicts-Colonial-Southeast-California/dp/0520294564/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HBP1WTF8ZVJ4&keywords=empire+of+convicts&qid=1674598898&sprefix=empire+of+convicts%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

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On 1/24/2023 at 10:25 PM, dallysingh101 said:

This book looks interesting. Apparently it covers Bhai Maharaj SIngh Ji and his companion Khurakh Singh:

 

About the Book

Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Convicts-Colonial-Southeast-California/dp/0520294564/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HBP1WTF8ZVJ4&keywords=empire+of+convicts&qid=1674598898&sprefix=empire+of+convicts%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

From podcast by the above author:

 

"Bhai Maharaj Singh and Kharakh Singh are the two men who fought to the bitter end in the Anglo-Sikh wars, and Bhai Maharaj Singh was the last person to be captured or to surrender to the british authorities because he's not captured until December 1849 by which time all the other Sikh elites have either been defeated or have been surrendered or been captured. So Bhai Maharaj Singh is really the last of the fighters, and he fights not only on horseback in actual battles but he also fights, and his claim to fame is he is able to provide supplies, whether it be munitions, whether it be horses, whether it be men, and he can always mobilise them and he can always provide miracles when Sikh rebels needed them the most. So he's this Bhai whose famous not only for his spirituality but also his effectiveness on the battlefield and providing the right supply of men and material and munitions in every important battle, and he's involved in all the key battles that occur, so from about 1844/45 all the way to 1859."

Anand A. Yang

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/on-bhai-maharaj-singh-and-kharak-singh-with/id1533329730?i=1000536892876

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