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Based on the life and times of Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948), Into the Silence covers nearly 100 years of Anglo-Indian history. Grand-daughter of Ranjit Singh, "The Lion of the Punjab" and a god-daughter of Queen Victoria, Sophia was born and raised in England. The play opens with Sophia's father, Duleep Singh, then aged just eleven, signing away the Punjab to the British after the Sikh Wars in in 1849. He is brought to England where Queen Victoria gives him the stately home of Elvedon in Suffolk, where he and his wife mix in the highest social circles and raise a family of six children, of whom Sophia is the youngest. But Duleep Singh finds it difficult to settle in England and English society. Sophia joins the Suffragettes and eventually takes over the movement as President following the death of Emmeline Pankhurst in 1928. She more than once refused to pay taxes and thus acquired a criminal record.

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Author: Noel Dollimore