The Mining Journal, a dry technical publication, gave a more accurate representation of Duleep’s plight than the Governor General: ‘The recent war in Mooltan, and disturbances in the Punjaub, have induced the British resident at Lahore to secure, as a hostage, the person of the boy King Maharajah Dhuleep [sic] Singh, and at the same time to seize the Koh-i-noor.’20
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