Sad Love story: The intrigues of Princess Gobind Kaur: Plight from Palace that ended in a Cow dung well disgrace and poverty

Princess Gobind Kaur, the daughter of Maharaja Nihal Singh of Kapurthala, was brought up in great luxury and splendour of the court of her father. She had one real brother by the name of His Highness Maharaja Randhir Singh and Raja Sir Harnam Singh, the father of Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur, former Minister of Health in the Government of India, after partition of the country in 1947, was her nephew.

 

Princess Gobind Kaur was married to a nobleman of great wealth and position.

At the time of her marriage she had laid down one condition that she would live with her husband only at Kapurthala and would not go to live with him in his native town called Kartarpur—a small town, 10 miles away from Kapurthala. 

The husband agreed and the Maharaja placed at the disposal of his daughter and son-in-law a palace near where the Maharaja with members of the royal family lived.

 

This palace, a six-storeyed building, was built in the style of the old Indian architecture, constructed with small bricks and wooden slippers and concrete.

 

The palace had only one gate and anyone entering the palace had to enter by that gate. The gate was well guarded by military guards and no one was allowed to enter the palace without the permission of the officer-in-charge of Deorhi (the Entrance Hall).

 

The palace was well furnished in pure oriental style and there was a special ornamental place called Shah Nisheen, the Royal Balcony, from where formerly the Maharaja used to make his appearance to the public every morning.

 

It was there that the princess used to sit most of the time from where she could see the people passing by.

The Shah Nisheen was screened in such a way that the Princess could see every person from outside but no one from outside could see her. The palace also had big drawing rooms, dining rooms and bed rooms and a spacious courtyard and a well for drawing water.

 

The Princess was abnormally licentious and sexual and could not get her sexual desires satisfied with her husband who was ugly, uncouth, weak and slow witted. Mentally and physically deformed, he was a degenerate, a drunkard and a rake.

 

She used to beckon young well built handsome men to enter the palace by some excuse or other to share her bed. She did not even spare the military guards who were on duty at the gate.

 

His Excellency Nawab Ghulam Gilani, Prime Minister of the Government of Kapurthala State, held daily cabinet meetings and spent most of his time in the palace nearby, called Diwan Khana, residence of the Prime Minister. Ghulam Gilani was a handsome tall man.

 

He had heard of the beauty of the Princess.He saw her one day from the Diwan Khana when the Princess was drying her hair in the sun on the top floor of her palace and he fell in love with her at first sight.

 

The Prime Minister tried his utmost to meet her but it was not an easy thing to do so owing to the customs and restrictions attached to the princely house.

 

The Princess used to go out daily for a drive on a coach driven by two horses but whenever she left the palace she was so well veiled that even the courtiers and military guards could not see her face or body.

 

Huge walking curtains surrounded her from the Dcorhi to the coach in order that she could enter the coach without being seen by anyone.

 

The Prime Minister used to watch her movements whenever she went out for a drive and he became more and more infatuated with her beauty and charm.

 

Ghulam Gilani had a suite of rooms for his personal use in the Diwan Khana and he began to spend even nights over there. This palace was never used by them for residential purpose.

 

The Prime Minister also used to go out to Jullundur, a place about 12 miles from the capital where he spent his week-ends with members of his family.

 

One day the Prime Minister sent a message to the Princess through her maid servant, Moulo, who was bribed very heavily, that he would like to meet her and the Princess agreed, but it was a problem how this could be arranged.

 

An underground tunnel was dug connecting the palace of Gobind Kaur, through which they went to and fro but Ghulam Gilani was not satisfied with short visits to the palace.

 

He wanted to take her to his house at Jullundur where he would be with her for long hours, at leisure, without any fear or formality and he found a way.

 

The carriage of the Prime Minister was drawn by two horses. There was a coachman and a valet in front of the seat of the coach and two sayeeces stood behind the coach in liveried uniforms with gold and silver buttons and silk turbans over which gold lace was stitched.

 

The coach used by the Prime Minister was similar to that of the princess.In the middle of the coach there was a box between the front and back seats where usually fodder for the horses was kept. This box was opened at the halting places to supply fodder to the horses.

 

A plan was hatched by the Prime Minister and the princess that she should go with the Prime Minister in his coach on an appointed day when he left for Jullundur.

 

She managed to escape from the palace by getting herself dressed up as a sweepress with her face veiled and got into the box meant for fodder and remained hidden there by closing the lid of the box which was a part of the coach.

 

Before entering the box she removed the dung of the horses and swept the floor in order to avoid any suspicion. She remained in that box for three hours before the Prime Minister could manage to get into the coach.

 

The coach left for Jullundur in the usual way. As soon as the coach crossed the main streets and was out of town the lid of the box was removed by the Prime Minister and there the Prime Minister and the Princess sat together in the coach in each other’s arms, kissing, hugging and smoking.

 

A big silver hukka which the Prime Minister always took with him while going to Jullundur was used by them for smoking.

 

The Prime Minister enjoyed thoroughly the company of the Princess on his two-hour journey to Jullundur and on reaching there they went to a house especially reserved for the Prime Minister and spent several hours together in bed in each other’s arms.

These escapades were repeated several times in a month remained unnoticed for several months. One day, the senior Minister of the Government, Diwan Ramjas, and the author’s Great Grand Father came to know of the escapades of the Princess and Ghulam Gilani.

 

Gobind Kaur’s maid servant was in love with the chief cook of the royal kitchen, Amanat Khan, to whom she told the secret. Amanat Khan was the friend of Ali Mohammed who was a faithful servant and told the secret to his Master the Senior Minister.

 

At a secret meeting of ministers it was decided that Ghulam Gilani and Gobind Kaur should be caught red handed when going to Jullundur.

 

The Prime Minister was arrested and was exiled from the State while the Princess was locked up in her palace and was forbidden to go out of the palace for several months.

 

The Princess was not much worried about the fate of the Prime Minister nor about her own fate as she had no love for Ghulam Gilani. It was only sex which counted with her.

 

Love has no limit.Plight of a Princess Gobind Kaur: The love that ended in a village cow dung well.

 

Princess Gobind Kaur had many other secret love affairs, but the most interesting, thrilling and lasting of them all was her love for Colonel Waryam Singh, a high military officer of the State Army whose ancestors had rendered valuable services to the rulers of the State.

 

He fell a victim to the charm and beauty of the Princess when he went to the palace of Gobind Kaur to inspect the military guard posted there.

 

The same problems arose how Waryam Singh could meet the Princess as the main gate was guarded by the military guards and the Princess was not allowed to go out even for her daily drives.

 

Her other maid servant Besanti carried the messages of Waryam Singh to the Princess and from the Princess to Waryam Singh.

 

The soon discovered a way to meet.

There was a well inside the palace for drawing water for royal use. The wall of the well was also the outer wall of the palace.

 

Waryam Singh forced a breach in the wall from the basement and a rope with a bucket of brass used for drawing water was thrown by the Princess and Waryam came up by means of this rope into the apartment of the Princess, in the palace, without being noticed by anyone.

 

The Princess had to draw up Waryam Singh from the well with the help of her lady companions who were in her confidence.

 

Once Waryam Singh was inside the palace, he spent the whole night with the Princess who dressed herself in gorgeous clothes to receive him. The golden bed with pillows of the best Banaras embroidery and sheets of the finest silks was spread on the bed by the orders of the Princess.

 

But one day someone noticed the Colonel inside the palace and reported it to the guards. The police force began to open the massive gates of the Palace to capture Waryam Singh and the Princess.

 

When Waryam Singh and the Princess came to know of what was happening at the gate they escaped through a private tunnel which connected the palace to a well about 100 yards away outside the palace, where the Princess used to take bath daily.

They spent the whole night in the cold water in the well and escaped from there early in the morning unnoticed, while Sirdar Danishmand and others were still busy in forcing through several massive gates of the palace one after the other.

 

When they reached the private rooms of the Princess after crashing through the three gates of the palace to capture Waryam Singh and the Princess, they found to their utter disappointment that the rooms were empty and Waryam Singh and Gobind Kaur had escaped.

 

Waryam Singh and Gobind Kaur went to a village called Kanyan near Sultanpur about 20 miles from Kapurthala, in slow marches on foot.

 

This village being in British territory was beyond the jurisdiction of the Government of the State of Kapurthala and police force of the State could not lay hands on them.

 

 The Princess was deprived of any allowance while the Colonel was disowned by the members of his own family and disinherited.

 

They both lived in a mud house at Kalyan and started earning their livelihood by farming. Waryam Singh ploughed the land and the Princess prepared cow-dung as a fuel to prepare food for her husband and herself, thus fulfilling the demands of their romance drunk hearts

The End

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