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[10] [11] On 7 September 1939 Maharaja Hari Singh and his law and Revenue Minister, Justice Sir Lal Gopal Mukherjee, a former judge of the Allahabad high court (1926–1934) who had served the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1935 to 1940, produced a written constitution for Jammu and Kashmir which was the "pioneer" in the annals of Asia's ...
Hari Singh Nalwa was the first to cross the Indus at Attock to the Sikh post of Khairabad; he was accompanied by Diwan Kirpa Ram and Khalsa Sher Singh, the Maharaja's teenaged son, beside 8,000 men. The Afghan army was expected near Nowshera , on the banks of the river Kabul (Landai).
Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. At the time of the Partition of India in 1947, the British abandoned their suzerainty over the princely states, which were left with the options of joining India or Pakistan or remaining independent. Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, indicated his preference to remain independent of the new ...
Tara Devi (1910-1967) was an Indian queen as Consort of the Indian princely state of Kashmir, the fourth wife of Maharaja Hari Singh I and mother of Crown Prince Karan Singh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Honours
Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir With the impending independence of India and Pakistan in August 1947, the Maharaja indicated his preference to remain independent of the new dominions. All the major political groups of the state supported the Maharaja's decision, except for the Muslim Conference, which eventually declared in favour of ...
William Alexander Brown MBE SI (13 December 1922 – 5 December 1984) was a British military officer based in British-ruled India.He is best known for his actions during the Partition of India, when he assisted the locals of the Gilgit Agency and led a coup d'état, codenamed Operation Datta Khel, against Hari Singh, the Maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, hailed from the Dogra Dynasty of Rajputs Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner , a modern reformist visionary. [ 85 ] He was also the only non-White member of the British Imperial War Cabinet during World War I .
The Amar Mahal Palace was planned by a French architect, in 1862. However, it was not built until the 1890s. Maharani Tara Devi, wife of the late Maharaja Hari Singh (son of Raja Amar Singh) lived in this palace till her death in 1967. Subsequently, her son Karan Singh and his wife Yasho Rajya Lakshmi converted the palace into a museum to house ...