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Sangramsinh was born on 6 August 1941 as the eighth child of Pratap Singh Rao Gaekwad, the last ruling Maharaja of Baroda, and his first wife Shantadevi.He has two brothers, Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad and Ranjitsinh Gaekwad, and five sisters.
In 1928, Sita Devi, a Hindu Rajput princess from the Kashipur princely state in Punjab, married Maharaja Kamarjit Singh, an Ahluwalia Sikh ruler and son of Maharaja Jagajit Singh of the Kapurthala princely state in Punjab. She was the daughter of Udai Raj Singh I, ruler of Kashipur state. [117] [118] [119]
The couple had three sons and five daughters: [4] Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad II (2 April 1930 – 1 September 1988), who succeeded as the Maharaja of Baroda. He married the only daughter of Maharaja Umaid Singh of Jodhpur. They did not have children, and therefore his brother Ranjitsingh succeeded him as Maharaja of Baroda.
Some of the prominent projects he completed include the Mumbai-Bangalore highway, the Mumbai Cricket Association's Bandra Kurla Complex Ground, the Hinjewadi IT park and the Wipro IT park in Chennai, to name a few. [3] The Shirke group has built many government projects in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Mahendra Prasad (8 January 1940 – 27 December 2021) was an Indian politician from Janata Dal (United) party, a Member of the Parliament of India representing Bihar in the Rajya Sabha.
Pratap Singh (Pratap Singh Bhonsale, Marathi pronunciation: [prət̪ɑːpəsiⁿɦə ˈbʱos(ə)le]; 18 January 1793 – 14 October 1847) was the eighth and last Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy from 1808 to 1818, when he surrendered to the British during the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
Gulu Lalvani (born March 1939) is a British businessman, the founder and chairman of Binatone, a manufacturer of digital cordless phones.He founded the company along with his brothers Kartar Lalvani (founder of Vitabiotics) and Pratap Singh Lalvani to import radios from Hong Kong.
Shapoorji Pallonji's stake in Tata Sons increased to 18.37% after the latter's rights issue in 1996. [19] In 2001–02, Shapoorji Pallonji took over Forbes Gokak (now Forbes & Company Ltd) from the Tata Group after winning a takeover battle with the Pawankumar Sanwarmal Group. [20]