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Since the Maharaja had no issue, Hari Singh was heir presumptive to the throne of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1903, Hari Singh served as a page of honour to Lord Curzon at the grand Delhi Durbar. At the age of 13, he was sent to Mayo College in Ajmer. A year later, in 1909, his father died and the British took a keen interest in his education ...
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 ...
The Jammu and Kashmir Instrument of Accession is a legal document executed by Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, on 26 October 1947, [1] [2] legally acceding the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India.
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 ...
Among the more momentous of such accessions was that concerning Jammu and Kashmir, as executed on 26 October 1947 by Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. It gave control of the defence and external relations of the state to the government of India.
Accession Day is a public holiday in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, commemorating 26 October 1947, when Maharaja Hari Singh signed off the Instrument of Accession, in which the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir joined the Dominion of India. [1] It became an official public holiday in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time in ...
Maharaja Gulab Singh: 16 March 1846 – 20 February 1856 Maharaja Ranbir Singh: 20 February 1856 – 12 September 1885 Maharaja Pratap Singh: 12 September 1885 – 23 September 1925 Maharaja Hari Singh: 12 September 1925 – 17 November 1952 [note 1]
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.