Rajmata ''Rajmata'' (''lit.'' king's mother) is an Indian term used for the mother of the head of a princely family in India. Examples include * Rajmata Jijau, mother of Shivaji *Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia of Gwalior, mother of Madhavrao Scindia * Raj ...

Krishna Kumari (10 February 1926 – 3 July 2018) was an Indian politician. She was the Maharani consort of

Marwar Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of western Rajasthan state in North Western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word 'maru' is Sanskrit for desert. In Rajasthani languages, "wad" means a particular area. English tran ...

Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Ki ...

as the spouse of Maharaja Hanuwant Singh, and the titular regent of

during the minority of

Gaj Singh Gaj Singh (born 13 January 1948) is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Indian parliament and High Commissioner of India. He has been the Maharaja of Jodhpur since 1952. Early years and accession Singh was born in Royal, Rajpu ...

II in 1952-1970. She was a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in 1971-1977.

Life

She was the last Maharani consort of

in 1947–1949 as the spouse of Maharaja Hanuwant Singh. After the death of her husband Maharaja Hanuwant Singh in 1952, she was titular

regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

for son, titular Maharaja

II as well as stepmother of the orphaned

Hukum Singh Hukum Singh (5 April 1938 – 3 February 2018) was an Indian politician who served as the Member of Parliament from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. He was a member of the Panel of Chairpersons of the 16th L ...

, and took charge of the princely family's interests. She was also known as HH Maharani Krishna Kumari Ba Sahiba of

Dhrangadhra Dhrangadhra () is a town, taluka headquarters and a municipality in Surendranagar district in the state of Gujarat, India. During the period of the British Raj, the city was the capital of Dhrangadhra State, one of the eight first-class princely ...

. She founded a girls' school in Jodhpur, Rajamata Krishna Kumari Girls' Public school. She contested the ''

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

'' election in 1971 from

and won, serving until 1977. She died on 3 July 2018, in Jodhpur, aged 92. The book "The Royal Blue" by Ayodhya Prasad depicts most of her life from the Princess of Dhangadhra to the Maharani of Marwar (Jodhpur).

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