William Dalrymple
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Appearances Over Time
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And even the Afghans have a nice memorial in the middle of Lahore in the form of the Zamzam gun, which is the great gun of the Punjab, which is an Afghan gun.
But there's nothing from the Sikh period which is visible or which is celebrated.
There are beautiful Sikh pavilions, of course, in Lahore Fort.
Lajpat Rai, who's not a famous name in Britain, but is well known in India, leading early nationalist.
1907, on that visit, she meets him.
And she's very much in this group of people who will be in the center of what will be the Indian National Congress and so on.
So there's a moment of sort of complete revelation that this people that she thought respected her have rejected her and the people she's forgotten about, her own people, the Sikhs and the people of Northern India, cluster around her and give her the respect that she's not been getting from anyone else.
She's completely different.
For those who don't know who the suffragettes are, explain to us, Anita, who they are, because major force at the beginning of the 20th century.
They love bombs every so often.
Yeah.
Now, all this culminates in Black Friday, the 18th of November, 1910.
And the man behind it is... Well, Winston Churchill.
Queen of the suffragettes.
And what happens to Sophia herself?
Is she assaulted?
Roughly like another loud of the Punjab on this podcast.
Five two.
So how is this covered, Anita?
So she now has a taste for this.