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{{Short description|Long–reigning Indian Monarch (1846–1924)}}
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'''Thakur Sahib Karansinhji II Vajirajji''' [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] (10 January 1846 – 8 August 1924) was the 12th ruler of the non-salute [[princely state]] of [[Lakhtar State|Lakhtar]].<ref name="Lethbridge"/>

==Life==
Karansinhji became ruler of Lakhtar on 15 June 1846, aged five months.<ref name="Lethbridge">{{cite book|last=Lethbridge |first=Roper |date=1900 |title=The golden book of India; a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon |location=London |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston and Co. |page=314 |url=https://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethrich/page/314/mode/2up}}</ref> He attended the 1911 [[Delhi Durbar]], and in the [[1911 Delhi Durbar Honours]] was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (CSI).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28559 |supp=|page=9358|date=8 December 1911}}</ref> He died on 8 August 1924 after a long reign of {{Age in years, months and days|1846|6|15|1924|8|8}}.<ref>{{cite book |date=1928 |title=The ruling princes, chiefs and leading personages in the Western India States Agency |location=Rajkot |publisher=Western India States Agency Press |page=261 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8136/page/261/mode/2up?q=}}</ref> His reign was one of the [[List of longest-reigning monarchs|longest reigns in Indian history]] and the sixth longest of any verifiable ruler.{{fact|date=June 2024}}

==References==
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[[Category:1846 births]]
[[Category:1924 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Star of India]]

Karansinhji II Vajirajji of Lakhtar - Revision history

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