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Gaj Singh
Gaj Singh II (born 13 January 1948), known as 'Bapji' (meaning 'father'), is the titular Maharaja of Jodhpur since 1952, as well as an Indian politician and diplomat.
Gaj Singh was born on 13 January 1948 to Hanwant Singh and his first wife, Krishna Kumari, in the Zenana (women's quarters) of Umaid Bhawan Palace. When his father, Hanwant Singh, lost his life in an air accident in 1952, the throne and titles were passed to him at the age of four. To mark his accession, a safa of five colors—pink, white, red, saffron, and green, which are also the colors of the Jodhpur State flag—was designed and is called Gaj Shahi.
During his minority, his mother, Krishna Kumari, acted as regent. He received a privy purse of 10 lakh rupees and continued to receive it until the 26th Amendment in 1971 abolished it.
He received his early education at home. At the age of eight in 1956, he was sent first to Cothill House, a prep school in Oxfordshire, and then in 1961 to Eton College, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1970 with a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
In 1970, following the completion of his education, he returned to Jodhpur to fulfill his duties as the Maharaja of Jodhpur, assuming control of his vast inheritance as well as the manifold social and cultural responsibilities that accompanied it.
On 28 December 1971, following the assent of the then President of India, V. V. Giri, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India was enacted by Parliament. This amendment abolished the official recognition of titles, privileges, and special rights that had been granted to the rulers of the former princely states.
This deprived him and other rulers of the government annuities that had been guaranteed to them both in the Constitution and in the covenants of accession through which their states had been merged with the Dominion of India in 1947.
On 19 February 1973, in a simple ceremony at Dehradun, he married Hemlata Rajye, the daughter of Shiv Rattan Dev Singh, Raja of Poonch, and his wife, Nalini Rajya Lakshmi Devi, the daughter of Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
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Gaj Singh
Gaj Singh II (born 13 January 1948), known as 'Bapji' (meaning 'father'), is the titular Maharaja of Jodhpur since 1952, as well as an Indian politician and diplomat.
Gaj Singh was born on 13 January 1948 to Hanwant Singh and his first wife, Krishna Kumari, in the Zenana (women's quarters) of Umaid Bhawan Palace. When his father, Hanwant Singh, lost his life in an air accident in 1952, the throne and titles were passed to him at the age of four. To mark his accession, a safa of five colors—pink, white, red, saffron, and green, which are also the colors of the Jodhpur State flag—was designed and is called Gaj Shahi.
During his minority, his mother, Krishna Kumari, acted as regent. He received a privy purse of 10 lakh rupees and continued to receive it until the 26th Amendment in 1971 abolished it.
He received his early education at home. At the age of eight in 1956, he was sent first to Cothill House, a prep school in Oxfordshire, and then in 1961 to Eton College, Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1970 with a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
In 1970, following the completion of his education, he returned to Jodhpur to fulfill his duties as the Maharaja of Jodhpur, assuming control of his vast inheritance as well as the manifold social and cultural responsibilities that accompanied it.
On 28 December 1971, following the assent of the then President of India, V. V. Giri, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India was enacted by Parliament. This amendment abolished the official recognition of titles, privileges, and special rights that had been granted to the rulers of the former princely states.
This deprived him and other rulers of the government annuities that had been guaranteed to them both in the Constitution and in the covenants of accession through which their states had been merged with the Dominion of India in 1947.
On 19 February 1973, in a simple ceremony at Dehradun, he married Hemlata Rajye, the daughter of Shiv Rattan Dev Singh, Raja of Poonch, and his wife, Nalini Rajya Lakshmi Devi, the daughter of Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev.