SIR JOHN LOGIN AND DULEEP SINGH. With an Introduction by Colonel G.B. Malleson.

1st Ed. Thick 8vo. xx + 580pp. Engraved port. frontis., folding map (repaired). From the Library of Dr Malcolm Yapp, hinges sl. sprung between pp.272-3, very occasional soiling, original bright gilt lettered navy cloth with gilt device to upper board, spine sl. chipped with sm. repair to head. Without the portrait of Duleep Singh, not always present, Bonhams have sold two copies mentioning only a portrait frontispiece.Written by Lady Login, wife of Dr. John Spencer Login, the Guardian and Custodian of Prince Duleep Singh after the annexation of Punjab into the British Empire. It puts a strong defence of the manner in which the British government and its appointed custodian Dr. Login groomed the Sikh prince and handled the affairs of the last Sikh heir. She disapproves of the anti-British behavior of the grown-up deposed Sikh Maharaja and his trade against the British. She has put a strong rebuttal to all the charges leveled against the British government and Dr. Login by the Sikhs and states that whatever course of life the young Maharaja adopted including his conversion to Christianity was with the express consent of the Maharaja. Describing the whole history of the British occupation of North India and Punjab. Since it is an eye witness and personally lived experience and its account, it is a valuable document on Sikh history its British bias is unmistakable. Punjab Digital Library. In 1890 she published Sir John Login and Duleep Singh, a record of their long and close relationship and of Duleep Singh's subsequent grievances against the British government, with which she sympathized . US$2970.…