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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Maharana of Dharampur from 1860 to 1891}}<br />
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| name = Narandevji<br />
| title = [[Maharana]] of [[Dharampur State|Dharampur]]<br />
| succession = [[Maharana]] of [[Dharampur State|Dharampur]]<br />
| reign = 20 January 1860 – 7 August 1891<br />
| predecessor = Ramdevji<br />
| successor = [[Mohandevji]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1840|09|03|df=yes}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1891|08|07|1840|09|03|df=yes}}<br />
| issue = {{ubl|Dharamdevji|[[Mohandevji]]|Baldevji|Prabhatdevji|[[Nand Kunverbaiji|Nand Kunverba]]}}<br />
| full name = Narandevji II Ramdevji<br />
| house = {{flagicon image|Drapeau_Dharampur.png}} [[Dharampur State|Dharampur]]<br />
| father = Ramdevji<br />
| dynasty = [[Sisodia dynasty|Sisodia]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Narandevji II Ramdevji''' was the [[Maharana]] of [[Dharampur State|Dharampur]] from 1860 until his death in 1891.<br />
== Birth ==<br />
He was born on 3 September 1840 to Ramdevji and his wife, the daughter of Gumansinhji, Maharawal of [[Chhota Udaipur State|Chhota Udaipur]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lethbridge |first=Sir Roper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zykYAAAAYAAJ |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 |date=1900 |publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company |pages=63 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reign ==<br />
He ascended the throne at the young age of 19 on 26 January 1860.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=Arnold |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oi0FXenezfkC |title=Indian States; a Biographical, Historical and Administrative Survey |date=1922 |publisher=Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Company |pages=675–678 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/aclarch0000269a296 |title=ACL-ARCH 00269 Indian Princes And The Crown |pages=176}}</ref> He was regarded as a very intelligent and capable ruler, and his rule was considered beneficent.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Dumasia |first=naorji M. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127441 |title=Dharampur A Brief Sketch Of Its History And Administration |date=1928 |pages=1–2}}</ref> He made significant improvements in the administration of the state by introducing new and appropriate laws to improve people's lives.<ref name=":2" /> [[British government of India|British Government]] in 1862 granted him a sanad, giving him and his successors the right to adopt under Hindu law if there was no natural heir.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> He found the arrangement of auctioning the British share of transit duties in his state annually to the highest bidder distasteful.<ref name=":3" /> In 1869, he expressed a desire to take over its permanent management.<ref name=":3" /> He also offered to remit his dues on all through traffic with [[Khandesh]], provided the [[British government of India|British Government]] did the same.<ref name=":3" /> Besides that, he proposed to make his own arrangements for collecting import and export duties to encourage freedom of trade.<ref name=":3" /> The management was granted to him in 1870.<ref name=":3" /> In 1875, when [[Edward VII]] visited [[India]], he was one of the Indian rulers invited to [[Mumbai]] to meet him.<ref name=":2" /> There, he received a medal and a [[khalat]].<ref name=":2" /> He attended the [[Delhi Durbar|Delhi durbar]] of 1877, where he was presented with a banner bearing the state coat of arms<ref name=":4" /> and was granted a personal salute of nine guns, along with the style of [[Highness|His Highness]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> This salute of nine guns was made permanent in 1878.<ref name=":3" /> In 1890, his personal salute was increased to 11 guns.<ref name=":4" /><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
He married and had four sons: Dharamdevji, [[Mohandevji]], Baldevji, and Prabhatdevji.<ref name=":0" /> He also had several daughters, including [[Nand Kunverbaiji|Nand Kunverba]], who married [[Bhagvatsinhji]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83776 |title=Who's Who Among Indian Princes And Chiefs |date=1933 |pages=1128}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died on 7 August 1891 and was succeeded by his son [[Mohandevji]] as the [[Maharana]] of [[Dharampur State|Dharampur]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Dept |first=India Foreign and Political |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xz1eQIW2c9gC |title=A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads, Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries |date=1909 |publisher=Superintendent Government Printing, India |pages=95–96 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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