Indian politician and last *ular Maharaja of Jodhpur

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 is the Maharaja of Jodhpur from 1952 .

Contents

• 1 Early years and accession
• 2 Family
• 3 Derecognition
• 4 Career
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early years and accession

Gaj Singh is the son of Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur by his first wife, Maharani Krishna *ari of Dhrangadhra. He succeeded to the *les and dignities of his father when only four years of age, in 1952, when his father died suddenly in a plane crash. He was enthroned shortly afterwards.

The infant and his siblings were raised by their mother, Rajmata Krishna *ari. At the age of eight, Gaj Singh was sent first to Cothill House, a prep school in Oxfordshire, England, and then to Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Singh's full *le as Maharaja was His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Saramad-i-Raja-i-Hind Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Shri Gaj Singhji II Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Marwar. And popularly known as 'Bapji' by general public of Marwar

Family

In 1970, Gaj Singh returned to Jodhpur to take up his duties as Maharaja of Jodhpur. In 1973, he married Hemalata Rajye, daughter of the Raja of Poonch, a major feudatory state of Kashmir State and his wife Nalini Rajya Lakshmi Devi, a daughter of King Tribhuvan of Nepal and Queen Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi. They are the parents of two children, being:

1. A daughter, Shivranjani Rajye (born 22 August 1974), and
2. A son, Shivraj Singh (born 30 September 1975).

Derecognition

In 1971, the cons*ution of India was amended. On 5 November 1971, the Maharaja and other princes were deprived of their privy purses, the government annuities that had been guaranteed to them both in the cons*ution and in the covenants of accession whereby their states were merged with the Dominion of India in the 1940s, with the enactment of the amendment. The same amendment also deprived them of other privileges, such as diplomatic immunity. In the Cons*ution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including *les, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).

Career

Later, Gaj Singh served as Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. He also served a term in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament.

On 20 July 1992, he founded a day-*-residential girls' school named Rajmata Krishna *ari Girls' Public School, named after his mother.

See also

• Rulers of Marwar

References

External links

• Maharaja of Jodhpur (Official website)