India, March 28 -- March is Women's History Month in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. As the month winds up, Kensington Palace, the childhood home of Queen Victoria, is paying homage to another royal, albeit one whose story is mostly unknown in the India subcontinent, where her forbears were from: Sophia Duleep Singh.

Sophia was the daughter of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Kingdom of the Punjab and the son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh through his wife, Jind Kaur.

As if that pedigree was not enough, Sophia later carved out her own niche as a suffragette icon, campaigning for voting rights for women at a time when one-half of humanity was denied the right to vote.

Kensington Palace has come up with an exhibitio...