ALLARD, BANNOU PĀN DEĪ (1814 1884), born of Rājā Meṅgā Rām of Chambā and Bannī Pañje Deī at Chambā on 25 January 1814, married Jean Francois Allard, one of Mahārājā Raṇjīt Siṅgh's French generals, in March 1826, and bore him seven children, two of whom died in infancy and are buried in Lahore along with their father. Allard and his wife also adopted a little orphan, Achille. In 1834, Bannou Pān Deī, her children and two of her female attendants accompanied Allard to France. The reason given to Mahārājā Raṇjīt Siṅgh for the journey was that the children needed a Christian education. However, in a newspaper interview in France, Allard spoke of another reason. His wife being much younger than him and belonging to a strict Hindu family, he feared she would be obliged to commit satī if he died in the Punjab.
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