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The Hill Fort of Maharaja Gulab Singh, 1846 drawing Gulab Singh was born on 17 October 1792 in a Hindu Dogra Rajput family. His father was Kishore Singh Jamwal. He joined the army of Ranjit Singh in 1809 and was sufficiently successful to earn a jagir worth 12,000 rupees and also 90 horses.
Rewa was the first princely state in India to declare Hindi the national language, in the times of Maharaja Gulab Singh. He is also credited for declaring the first responsive government in modern India, providing citizens of Rewa state a right to question their monarch's decisions.
Martand Singh (15 March 1923 – 20 November 1995) was an Indian wildlife conservationist, parliamentarian and the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Rewa. [1] Born in 1923 to Gulab Singh at Fort of Govindgarh , then the Maharajah of Rewa, he did his college studies at Daly College , Indore and continued at Mayo College , Ajmer from ...
Banganga Mela was started by the then Rewa Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1895. Since then, the traditions of the fair are continuing in Banganga. The purpose of the fair is to make an indelible impression in the courtyard of the Virat Temple, built in a thousand years before, it signifies donation and virtue.The reconciliation and enthusiasm of people in the fair remained a witness to the nature of ...
Hira Singh, was a great favourite of Maharaja Ranjit Singh [27] and Gulab Singh once even aspired to have him installed as the Sikh emperor. [28] Hira Singh had become prime minister aged 24, after his father and Gulab Singh's brother Vizir Dhian Singh was assassinated in his blotched September 1843 coup d'état against Sikh emperor Sher Singh ...
Shaikh Imam-ud-Din (1819–1859) was the Muslim governor of Kashmir Valley between 25 March and 25 October 1846, prior to the establishment of Dogra dynasty.He rose to power after the treaty of Amritsar was signed, and subsequently refused to comply with its terms according to which Kashmir had been ceded by the British East India Company to Gulab Singh.
His daughter Mohena Singh [2] is Indian television actress and son Divyaraj Singh is BJP legislator from Sirmour, Rewa. Pushparaj Singh is the son of the late Indian politician and wildlife conservationist Martand Singh, and a grandson of Maharaja Gulab Singh, the last ruler of the princely state of Rewa during the British Raj in India. Martand ...
Dharmarth Trust (also spelt Dharmartha) in Jammu and Kashmir was founded by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1846 as an endowment for religious charity, and to manage and support Hinduism. [1] In 1884, and under Maharaja Ranbir Singh , the Ain-i-Dharmath (in Persian ) or 'The Regulations for the Dharmarth Trust' were formulated and a government ...