Amar Prakash

Last updated
Maharaja Amar Prakash
His Highness the Maharaja Sahib of Sirmur
Maharaja of Sirmur
Reign1911-1933
Predecessor Surendra Bikram Prakash
Successor Rajendra Prakash
Born26th January 1888
Nahan, Sirmur State, British India
Died13 August 1933(1933-08-13) (aged 45)
Vienna, Austria
ConsortMandalsa Devi
IssueMahima Kumari
Rajendra Prakash
Premlata Kumari
Father Surendra Bikram Prakash
MotherSubhadra Devi

Amar Prakash, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., was the Maharaja of Sirmur State from 1911 until 1933.

Biography

Amar Prakash was born on 26 January 1888 to Surendra Bikram Prakash, Raja of Sirmur. [1] He was educated privately and received administrative training during the time of his father. [1] [2] He succeeded to the Gaddi on the death of his father in 1911. He was installed on the Gaddi by Sir Louis Dane, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. [1] He married Mandalsa Devi, eldest daughter of Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, ex-Prime Minister of Nepal. [1] [2]

He died of meningitis in Vienna on 13 August 1933. [3] He was succeeded by his son, Rajendra Prakash as the Maharaja of Sirmur. [4] [5]

Related Research Articles

The doctrine of lapse was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent about the princely states, and applied until 1859, two years after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj. Elements of the doctrine of lapse continued to be applied by the post-independence Indian government to derecognize individual princely families until 1971, when the former ruling families were collectively discontinued.

Marwar Region in Rajasthan, India

Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in North Western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word 'maru' is Sanskrit for desert. In Rajasthani dialect, "wad" means a particular area. English translation of the word 'marwar' is 'the region of desert.'

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Maharaja of Mysore from 1894–1940

Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore, from 1894 until his death in 1940. He is popularly called "Rajarshi"(Kannada Trans. ರಾಜರ್ಷಿ),the name which was given by Mahatma Gandhi, which literally means "the sage king" for his administrative reforms and achievements

Jaswant Singh of Marwar Maharaja of Marwar (1626–1678)

Jaswant Singh Rathore was a Maharaja of Marwar in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He was a distinguished man of letters and author of "Siddhant-bodh", "Anand Vilas" and "Bhasa-bhusan".

Man Singh II Last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur (1912–1970)

Major General Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II GCSI GCIE was an Indian prince, government official, diplomat and sportsman.

Bhawani Singh Indian Army Officer, hotelier, and titular Maharaja of Jaipur state 1970-71

Lt. Col, Brig. (Hon.), Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singh MVC was an Indian Army officer and a hotelier.

Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo Indian politician

Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo is an Indian politician and the wife of the titular Maharaja of Bolangir, an erstwhile princely state located in Odisha. She is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Bolangir of Odisha and member of the BJP. She is a member of the National executive of the party.

Imperial Legislative Council

The Imperial Legislative Council was a legislature for British India from 1861 to 1947. It succeeded the Council of the Governor-General of India, and was succeeded by the Constituent Assembly of India and after 1950, was succeeded by Parliament of India.

Hanut Singh Rao Raja

Rao Raja Hanut Singh was a British Indian Army soldier and polo player.

Sirmur State

Sirmur was an independent kingdom in India, founded in 1616, located in the region that is now the Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The state was also known as Nahan, after its main city, Nahan. The state ranked predominant amongst the Punjab hill States. It had an area of 4,039 km2 and a revenue of 300,000 rupees in 1891.

Fateh Shah was the king of Garhwal, a small kingdom in North India, from 1684 to 1716.

The Battle of Bhangani was fought between Guru Gobind Singh's army and Bhim Chand (Kahlur) of Bilaspur on 18 September 1686, at Bhangani near Paonta Sahib.Rajput Rajas of Shivalik Hills participated in the war from Bhim Chand (Kahlur)‘s Bilaspur State side.It was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, at the age of 19.

Maharaja Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar, KCSI, was the last ruling Maharaja of Alwar.

Ripudaman Singh Maharaja of Nabha from 1911–1928

Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, later known as Sardar Gurcharan Singh, was the Maharaja of Nabha from 1911 to 1928, when he was deposed by the British. He later became an Indian revolutionary.

Fateh Singh of Udaipur and Mewar Maharana of Udaipur from 1884–1930

Maharana Sir Fateh Singh, ruled Mewar for 46 years from 1884 to 1930, with Udaipur as capital, and resided in the City Palace, Udaipur.

Bharatpur State

Bharatpur State, that is also known as the Jat State of Bharatpur historically known as the Kingdom of Bharatpur, was a Hindu Kingdom in the northern Indian subcontinent. It was ruled by the Sinsinwar clan of the Hindu Jats. At the time of reign of king Suraj Mal (1755–1763) revenue of the state was 17,500,000 rupees per annual.

Garhwal Kingdom Former independent kingdom in present-day Uttarakhand, India

Garhwal Kingdom was an independent Himalayan kingdom in the current north-western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, founded in 688 CE by Kanak Pal, the progenitor of the Panwar rajput dynasty that ruled over the kingdom uninterrupted until 1803 CE.

Bhavsinhji II Maharaja of Bhavnagar from 1896–1919

Colonel Maharaja Raol Sir Shri Bhavsinhji II Takhtsinhji, KCSI was a Maharaja from the Gohil dynasty, who ruled the Bhavnagar State in western India from 1896 until 1919.

Raja Sir Surendra Bikram Prakash Bahadur, was a Raja of the princely state of Sirmur from 1898 until his death in 1911.

Rajendra Prakash, K.C.I.E., 48th direct male lineal descendant from the original founder of the Dynasty, served as the Maharaja of Sirmur State from 1933 until 1964.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Indian states : a biographical, historical, and administrative survey. Playne, Somerset., Solomon, R. V., Bond, J. W., Wright, Arnold, 1858-1941. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. 2006. ISBN   81-206-1965-X. OCLC   76941475.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. 1 2 Gazetteer of the Sirmur State. New Delhi: Indus Pub. Co. 1996. ISBN   81-7387-056-X. OCLC   41357468.
  3. Brentnall, Mark (2004). The Princely and Noble Families of the Former Indian Empire (v. 1). Indus Publishing. ISBN   8173871639.
  4. Lal Datta, Chaman (1997). The Raj and the Simla Hill States: Socio-economic Problems, Agrarian Disturbances and Paramountcy. ABS Publications. ISBN   8170720729.
  5. "History | District Sirmaur, Government of Himachal Pradesh | India" . Retrieved 2021-12-12.