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Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal (1792–1857) was the first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and the founder of the Dogra dynasty.Originally a commander of the Sikh Empire, he sided with the British in the First Anglo-Sikh War and briefly became prime minister of the Sikh Empire in 1846. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
His Highness Maharaja Gulab Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewa, Central India. ... Southern India Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, India. ... Thakur Raghunath Singh, Sub ...
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 ...
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]