 His mother, Empress Jind Kaur (1817-1863), arrived in 1860 at Kensington in Victorian London and settled permanently, after fighting the British for a long time until the fall of the Sikh Dynasty in 1849.She was given permission by the British Parliament to settle on English soil.The First Sikh Settlers started migrating from the Punjab in 1911, when the first Sikh Gurdwara was opened in London.