Colonel The Honourable Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (1871-5 December 1911) was a
Punjabi politician and scholar.
Biography
The son of
Bikrama Singh of
Kapurthala
Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent build ...
, Pratap Singh was an honorary magistrate and civil judge in
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
. He served as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council from 1906 to 1911 and the
Imperial Legislative Council
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1910–1911. He was a founder of the Punjab Chiefs' Association.
Actively involved in the Sikh renaissance movement, Pratap Singh was a scholar of history and religion and was an eminent
musicologist
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of his time.
Awards
*1909: Commander of the
Order of the Star of India
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# Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
# Knight Commander ( KCSI)
# Companion ( CSI)
No appointments ...
*1911 (posthumous): Knight Commander of Order of the Star of India
See also
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Ahluwalia (misl)
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Harnam Singh
Raja Sir Harnam Singh Ahluwalia , KCIE (15 November 1851 – 20 May 1930) was a member of the Kapurthala royal family in the direct line founded by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.
He was the first president of the All India Conference of Indian Christi ...
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The Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Dame Rajkumari Bibiji Amrit Kaur (''née'' Ahluwalia) DStJ (2 February 1887 – 6 February 1964) was an Indian activist and politician. Following her long-lasting association with the Indian independence movement, she was appointed the first ...
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Billy Arjan Singh
Kunwar "Billy" Arjan Singh (15 August 1917 – 1 January 2010) was an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild.Thapar, V. (2010) ''Obituary: ...
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Bikrama Singh
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Vishvjit Singh
Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (29 October 1946 - 6 August 2017) was an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress party. He is a great-grandson of Col the Honourable Pratap Singh of Kapurthala.
Biography
Singh was born on 29 October 1946 at ...
References
Sources
*Sir Lepel Grifin – Rajas of the Punjab. 1873
*Griffin & Massey – Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab 1909
*Challenge and response (1849–1873) by Harbans Singh published in the Sikh Spectrum.com Monthly Issue No.11, April 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012010324/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/042003/challenges.htm
External links
Sikh heritage
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1871 births
1911 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
People from Kapurthala
Punjab, India politicians
History of Sikhism
Indian Sikhs
Members of the Imperial Legislative Council of India