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Amar Prakash
Sir 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. He was educated privately and received administrative training during the time of his father. 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. He married Mandalsa Devi, eldest daughter of Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, ex-Prime Minister of Nepal. * Mahima Kumari. * Rajendra Prakash. * Premlata Kumari. He died of meningitis in Vienna on 13 August 1933. He was succeeded by his son, Rajendra Prakash as the Maharaja of Sirmur Sirmur (also spelled as Sirmor, Sirmaur, Sirmour, or Sirmoor) 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 .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharaja
Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, and Chandragupta Maurya. 'Title inflation' soon led to most being rather mediocre or even petty in real power, which led to compound titles (among other efforts) being used in an attempt to distinguish some among their ranks. The female equivalent, Maharani (or Maharanee, Mahārājñī, Maharajin), denotes either the wife of a Maharaja (or Maharana etc.) or also, in states where it was customary, a woman ruling without a husband. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajmata, "queen mother". Maharajakumar generally denotes a son of a Maharaja, but more specific titulatures are often used at each court, including Yuvaraja for the heir (the crown prince). The form "Maharaj" (without "-a") indicates a separation of noble and religious office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirmur State
Sirmur (also spelled as Sirmor, Sirmaur, Sirmour, or Sirmoor) 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. History Nahan, the predecessor state of Sirmur, was founded by Soba Rawal in 1095 AD who assumed the name Raja Subans Prakash. The new capital was founded in 1621 by Raja Karam Prakash, and the state was renamed to Sirmur. Sirmur was surrounded by the hill states of Balsan and Jubbal in the North, Dehradun district in the East, Ambala district in the South West, and the states of Patiala and Keonthal in the North-West. But by chance, shortly after this event a prince of Jaisalmer visited Haridwar as a pilgrim, and was invited by one of the minstrels of the Sirmoor kingdom to become i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahan
Nahan is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District It was the capital of the former Sirmur princely state.Nahan is also known as the Town of ponds. Geography Nahan is located at . It has an average elevation of 932 metres. Demographics India census, Nahan tehsil had a population of 35000. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Nahan has an average literacy rate of 85%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 86%, and female literacy is 79%. In Nahan, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age. According to 2011 Census of India, Nahan has a population of 56000. The sex ratio was 916 females per thousand males and literacy rate stood at 83.4% with male literacy at 87.01% and female literacy at 76.71%. Nahan Town Nahan is situated on a hill top in the Shiwalik Hills, overlooking green hills. Traditionally, saints and princes are linked with the origin of Nahan. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another, they existed between 1612 and 1947, conventionally divided into three historical periods: *Between 1612 and 1757 the East India Company set up Factory (trading post), factories (trading posts) in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the Mughal emperors, Maratha Empire or local rulers. Its rivals were the merchant trading companies of Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France. By the mid-18th century, three ''presidency towns'': Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, had grown in size. *During the period of Company rule in India (1757–1858), the company gradually acquired sovereignty over large parts of India, now called "presidencies". However, it also increasingly came under British government over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surendra Bikram Prakash
Raja Sir Surendra Bikram Prakash Bahadur, (14 November 1867 – 4 July 1911) was a Raja of the princely state of Sirmur from 1898 until his death in 1911. Surendra Bikram was the son of Raja Sir Shamsher Prakash, GCSI (1846–1898), and succeeded as Raja on his death in 1898. The State of Sirmur, which was sub-Himalayan, in what is now the Sirmaur district, was also sometimes known as Nahan, after its main city Nahan. The Raja had a salute of 11 guns, and he was the 44th of his line. He continued a progressive policy adopted by his father, including reorganizing the Courts of Justice in the state, and amalgamated the postal service with that of British India. According to a contemporary obituary, he "gave personal attention to administrative details". The Viceroy, Lord Curzon, nominated him to a seat on the Imperial Legislative Council, where he served from 1902 until 1907. He attended the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1903. Raja Surendra Bikram was appointed a Knight Commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajendra Prakash
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. Biography He was born on 11 January 1913 to Amar Prakash and his wife Mandalasa Kumari. He succeeded to the Gaddi on the death of his father in 1933. He died in 1964. Personal life Marriages In 1936, he married his first wife, Durga Devi, the daughter of the Nagod State, Raja Sahib of Nagod. His second marriage was with Indira Devi, the daughter of Palitana State, the Maharaja Thakore Sahib of Palitana in 1941. Children Rajendra Prakash was the father of two daughters, Nalini Devi (by his first wife) and Padmini Devi (by his second wife). Nalini Devi married Vidur Singh, son of the Raja Sahib of Alipura, in 1952. Padmini Devi, married Bhawani Singh, son of Jaipur State, the Maharaja Sahib of Jaipur, in 1967.{{Cite book, last=Pārīka, first=Nandakiśora, url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44728120, title=Jai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Dane
Sir Louis William Dane (21 March 1856 – 22 February 1946) was an administrator during the time of the British Raj. Early life He was born on 21 March 1856 at Chichester, Sussex, the fifth son of Richard Martin Dane, an army staff surgeon, and Sophia Eliza, the daughter of Colonel Charles Griffiths who had served in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Richard Morris Dane, was his brother. He was educated at Dr Stackpole's school in Kingstown, Dublin and passed his examinations for the Indian Civil Service in 1874. He married Edith Norman on 3 March 1882. Civil service In 1876, he was posted to the Punjab as assistant commissioner in Dera Ghazi Khan. In 1879, he became private secretary to Sir Robert Egerton, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. He became Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in 1903. In 1904, the Dane Mission, named for his leadership, was sent by the British to Afghanistan to negotiate the friendship agreement with the country's new Amir, Habibullah Khan. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
