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DULEEP SINGH. 

Northern India, and after the Rajpoot tribes had become feudatories and vassals of the Mahomedan imperial power, the Chohans maintained not only their noble chivalrous spirit, but their martial renown; and to them has been awarded the palm of intrepidity and heroic endurance of misfortune, above all other warlike tribes of India. 

The respectable individual represented in the photograph wears no arms, and appears, according to his vocation, in an ordinary dress of quilted silk or chintz, with a shawl thrown over his shoulders; yet it is impossible to mistake the resolute expression of the countenance.