Genesis of Lawrence’s involvement
Source: Wikipedia
Maharaja Gulab (modern spelling) Singh
Extract from a Letter dated July 1 1854 from Sir Henry Lawrence, writing from Mount Aboo to Rev. J. Parker ‘In November of that year, 1846, Maharaja Goolab Sing offered me a lack of rupees for the asylum. I told him that if he still wished to give the money after an interval of a twelvemonth, to inform me by letter, and I would ask for Government sanction. Two or three times within the year the offer was repeated, and eventually I asked and obtained sanction. The money was at once funded, and still remains so. It is our only capital.’
Straightaway it can be seen that there was a conflict of interest! Why on Earth would Gulab Singh give a lack of rupees to Lawrence towards his pet project when neither his offspring nor the offspring of his soldiers nor any non-European would be allowed into such an asylum? Even the Governor General Dalhouse commented on this!
Treaty of Amritsar March 16, 1846
The treaty between the British Government on the one part and Maharajah Gulab Singh of Jammu on the other concluded on the part of the British Government by Frederick Currie, Esq. and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of her Britannic Majesty’s most Honorable Privy Council, Governor-General of the possessions of the East India Company, to direct and control all the affairs in the East Indies and by Maharajah Gulab Singh in person – 1846.
Article 1 The British Government transfers and makes over for ever in independent possession to Maharajah Gulab Singh and the heirs male of his body all the hilly or mountainous country with its dependencies situated to the eastward of the River Indus and the westward of the River Ravi including Chamba and excluding Lahol, being part of the territories ceded to the British Government by the Lahore State according to the provisions of Article IV of the Treaty of Lahore, dated 9 March 1846.
Article 2 The eastern boundary of the tract transferred by the foregoing article to Maharajah Gulab Singh shall be laid down by the Commissioners appointed by the British Government and Maharajah Gulab Singh respectively for that purpose and shall be defined in a separate engagement after survey.
Article 3 In consideration of the transfer made to him and his heirs by the provisions of the foregoing article Maharajah Gulab Singh will pay to the British Government the sum of seventy-five lakhs of rupees (Nanukshahee), fifty lakhs to be paid on or before the 1st October of the current year, A.D., 1846.
Article 4 The limits of territories of Maharajah Gulab Singh shall not be at any time changed without concurrence of the British Government.
Article 5 Maharajah Gulab Singh will refer to the arbitration of the British Government any disputes or question that may arise between himself and the Government of Lahore or any other neighboring State, and will abide by the decision of the British Government.
Article 6 Maharajah Gulab Singh engages for himself and heirs to join, with the whole of his Military Forces, the British troops when employed within the hills or in the territories adjoining his possessions.
Article 7 Maharajah Gulab Singh engages never to take to retain in his service any British subject nor the subject of any European or American State without the consent of the British Government.
Article 8 Maharajah Gulab Singh engages to respect in regard to the territory transferred to him, the provisions of Articles V, VI and VII of the separate Engagement between the British Government and the Lahore Durbar, dated 11 March 1846.
Article 9 The British Government will give its aid to Maharajah Gulab Singh in protecting his territories from external enemies.
Article 10 Maharajah Gulab Singh acknowledges the supremacy of the British Government and will in token of such supremacy present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve shawl goats of approved breed (six male and six female) and three pairs of Cashmere shawls.
This Treaty of ten articles has been this day settled by Frederick Currie, Esq. and Brever-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under directions of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Governor-General, on the part of the British Government and by Maharajah Gulab Singh in person, and the said Treaty has been this day ratified by the seal of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Governor-General. Done at Amritsar the sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, corresponding with the seventeenth day of Rubee-ul-Awal (1262 Hijri).
(Signed) H. Hardinge (Seal) (Signed) F. Currie
(Signed) H. M. Lawrence
Maharaja Ranbir Singh
Gulab Singh was succeeded on the 20 February 1856 by his son Ranbir Singh. Following the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857, Indian ‘mutineers’ were not allowed to take shelter in his state but European women and children were! Proof positive if proof were needed that Kashmir was merely a vassal state and that Ranbir Singh was merely a supplicant to the East Indian Company and to the British Government following its takeover of the East India Company. This character even sent his troops to help the British besiege Delhi.
Maharaja Pratap Singh
Ranbir Singh was succeeded on 12 September 1885 by his son Pratap Singh (Later Sir Pratap Singh). This character was deposed briefly in 1889 by the British but was later reinstated. His Knighthood was for supplying Dogra Soldiers to fight for the British during World War1. Sadly, a number of the so called Maharajas supplied such soldiers, what in modern parlance would be called cannon fodder. The photograph of Pratap Singh gives the impression of being a soldier-statesman. Reality is that he was a pederast (a man who prefers and sexually assaults boys).
Maharaja Hari Singh
Pratap Singh was succeeded by the last member of this despicable dynasty; the feckless and moronic Hari Singh.
This is the story of the feckless Maharaja Hari Singh, whose great grandfather was sold Kashmir for 7.5 million Nanakshahee Rupees. The whole matter was overseen by Sir Henry Lawrence.
Below are various photos and clips of Lieutenant-General His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Maharaja Shri Hari Singhji Bahadur Indar Mahindar, Sipar-i-Saltanat-i-Inglishia, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, LLD., including his coronation and marriage. This Lieutenant-General never ever led any troops himself nor was he a military man of any sort. The photograph (bottom right) of the feckless fool in military uniform sitting with Sardar Patel merely exposes his bogocity!
The fool can be seen wearing some of the medals, which are listed below, in one of the photographs above. Like everything else in his life, the medals too were bogus: The first medal was given when Hari Singh was 8 years old, the second when he was 16. These were given merely for attending an event! The third medal was given a year after the Maharaja was caught with his pants down and fornicating with a prostitute in Ritz Hotel, Paris where the spendthrift had hired a whole floor!
Honours
- 1903: Delhi Durbar Medal
- 1911: Delhi Durbar Medal
- 1922: Prince of Wales Visit Medal
- 1929: Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) (KCIE in 1918)
- 1930: Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- 1933: Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
- 1935: King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
- 1937: King George VI Coronation Medal
- 1938: Grand Officer of the Legion d’Honneur
- 1945: 1939-1945 Star
- 1945: Africa Star
- 1945: War Medal 1939-1945
- 1945: India Service Medal
- 1946: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) (KCVO in 1922)
- 1948: Indian Independence Medal
Honorary degrees
- 1938: Hon. LL.D from Punjab University
Throughout the period of the dynasty, the bogus rulers’ sole purpose was to enhance their personal wealth and lead debauched lives at the expense of their subjects. A point to note is that they were not even Kashmiri but alien Rajputs! Although the date of succession was 23 September 1925, Hari Singh’s debauched lifestyle was well known to the British and as such he was totally malleable and would do as he was ordered to by the British. Hari Singh’s debauchery and despicable behaviour can be gleaned from the article below but note: These Maharaja types had power to collect revenue and spend as they pleased! A number of them acquired well deserved ill-reputes as being pointless spendthrifts wasting enormous sums on common prostitutes in European fleshpots such as Paris where Maharaja Hari Singh was caught, literally, with his pants down! They invested little or nothing in uplifting their subjects but paid abject obeisance to their British Masters. These British Masters allowed them to lead such debauched lives as long as their dues were paid!
Note: Sir Hari’s own counsel, Lord John Simon (later Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer), described his client as “a poor, green, shivering, abject wretch.” This fool thus described had already been appointed Commander-in- Chief of the Kashmir Army in 1915 when he was a mere 20 years old. The wimp was, in 1929 given a Knighthood Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire , such a knighthood being given for chivalry! Just a few years earlier, this ‘chivalrous’ fool was crying when a British prostitute he had fallen in love with was dancing with another man!
The despicable Maharaja’s ‘exploits’ in London were extensively reported at the time but here are just a few extracts from a book; Chancers Scandal , Blackmail and buying The Enigma Code by Barbara Jefferey
‘Rose was talkative and abusive in his cups, shouting ‘Where’s that fucking nigger? Produce him. I’ll show him etc etc.’ Note how Hari Singh was referred to as ‘that fucking nigger’.
‘The Rajah did in fact at this time sleep with Mrs Robinson on one or more occasions when I was not on watch. One day when I went to Chapel Street to have tea with Mrs R I found her in tears. I asked her what the trouble was and she said there had been a row with her husband. She explained that the Rajah had insisted upon her shaving her private parts and that she had shaved herself with a safety razor. (This she thought rather fun.) Her husband had been in that day and had discovered what she had done and had made a terrible scene and struck her. She said that R did not object to to the Rajah going to bed with her but regarded the shaving as an indignity upon him, and was angry and violent. When I calmed her somewhat, she told me that she was ‘quite beginning to like the Rajah as a lover’ but that he had a funny way of doing it. When I asked her what she meant by that, she said that some people called it unnatural, but that she rather liked ‘the back way of making love’. NOTE: MAHARAJAH HARI SINGH LED THE KIND OF DEBAUCHED LIFE WHERE HE WAS ASKING A GONORRHEA RIDDEN ENGLISH PROSTITUTE TO SHAVE HER PUBIC HAIR AND ALSO HAVING ANAL INTERCOURSE WITH HER. THE AFOREMENTIONED EXTRACTS ARE FROM LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN A BRITISH COURT. HERE WAS A CHARACTER DISGRACING INDIA. IT IS LITTLE WONDER THAT COME 1947 THIS CHARACTER WAS AMENABLE TO BEING MANIPULATED BY MOUNTBATTEN AND OTHER DESPICABLE CHARACTERS. THE PROBLEMS HARI SINGH LEFT BEHIND STILL HAUNT US. HARI SINGH WAS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THE ACTION OF LAWRENCE.
Further extract: Arthur told me that the Rajah and Jung (Hari Singh’s political secretary, Khusru Jung also a Nawab in his own right) used to go out together and pick up street women.
Maude Robinson a prostitute with whom Hari Singh fell in love.
Note the following extracts from the above link: ‘In the end four written questions were put and the replies seen be the lawyers before being given to the jury. The questions were never revealed in public but they referred to nothing more shocking than Sir Hari’s request for Maudie to shave off her pubic hair…..’ It is absolutely disgusting that the future Maharaja of Kashmir which with a size of 85783 square miles was almost as large as Britain’s 93628 Square miles was requesting a Gonorrhoea ridden British prostitute to shave off her pubic hair!
Clearly, India is still paying for the action commenced by East India Company employee Sir Henry Lawrence!
Here is a video of the Kashmir issue
Post Script
The Kashmir issue continues: An alumnus of Lawrence School Sanawar, Omar Abdullah became Chief Minister. His father Farooq was also Chief Minister as was his grandfather Sheikh. Sheikh, in collaboration with Nehru usurped Kashmir and since then his son Farooq and grandson Omar have presided over the deaths of innumerable soldiers, Hindu citizens, all three Abdullahs have been thoroughly corrupt (just a small example is the disappearance of Rupees 113 crores given by the Central Government to the Kashmir Cricket Association for the development of Cricket in the state). Omar, born in England to an Englishwoman, and Farooq spend a substantial portion of their time in the UK where Omar’s English mother lives. The lifestyles they enjoyed as politicians would put spendthrift Sir Hari Singh to shame!