Hira Singh Dogra

Hira Singh Dogra (1816 – 1844)

Prime minister of the Sikh kingdom of Lahore, eldest son of Raja Dhian Singh. When Ranjit Singh’s five year old son, Duleep Singh was proclaimed Maharaja of Punjab, Hira Singh assumed the office of prime minister.

Tinted lithograph by Lower Dickinson (1819 – 1908), after a drawing by Emily Eden (1795 – 1869), published by J. Dickinson & Son, London

Size: 13 x 10.5 in. (33 x 26.6 cms.)
Date of printing – 1844