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	'''Pravir, King of Bastar''' (''Pravir Chandra Bhanj Dev'' 25 June 1929 – 25 March 1966) was 20th Maharaja of [[Bastar state]] <ref name=gen>[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/bastar.html Bastar (state) - History and Genealogy] ''[[Queensland University]]''.</ref><ref name=hist>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_128.gif Bastar - History] [[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]], 1908. v. 7, p. 122.</ref><ref>[http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM History of Bastar] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409233731/http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM \|date=9 April 2009 }} [[Bastar district]] official website.</ref> who was shot in 1966 for championing the cause of his subjects. He fought for rights of the tribal people. He represented the [[Jagdalpur]] Vidhan Sabha constituency in the undivided [[Madhya Pradesh]] Legislative Assembly following the [[general election]] of 1957.<ref name="General Elections of MP 1957">{{cite web\|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_MP_1957.pdf\|title=General Elections of MP 1957\|publisher=Election Commission Of India\|year=2004}}</ref>		'''Pravir, King of Bastar''' (''Pravir Chandra Bhanj Dev'' 25 June 1929 – 25 March 1966) was 20th Maharaja of [[Bastar state]]<ref name=gen>[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/bastar.html Bastar (state) - History and Genealogy] ''[[Queensland University]]''.</ref><ref name=hist>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_128.gif Bastar - History] [[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]], 1908. v. 7, p. 122.</ref><ref>[http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM History of Bastar] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409233731/http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM \|date=9 April 2009 }} [[Bastar district]] official website.</ref> who was shot in 1966 for championing the cause of his subjects. He fought for rights of the tribal people. He represented the [[Jagdalpur]] Vidhan Sabha constituency in the undivided [[Madhya Pradesh]] Legislative Assembly following the [[general election]] of 1957.<ref name="General Elections of MP 1957">{{cite web\|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_MP_1957.pdf\|title=General Elections of MP 1957\|publisher=Election Commission Of India\|year=2004}}</ref>

	He was the last ruler of Bastar state which was established by a branch of [[Kakatiya]] dynasty.The [[Kakatiya]] dynasty adopted Dev or Deo surname in line with other feudal kings of Odisha ruled under [[Gajapati Kingdom]] in medieval period.The Bastar region was part of greater Kalinga kingdom and an ~~extenstion~~ of Trikalinga. He was born on 25 June 1929 and was educated at [[Rajkumar College, Raipur]]. He succeeded to throne on 28 October 1936. He was married to Rajkumari Shubhraj Kumari of [[Patan, Rajasthan]] daughter of Raj Rishi Rao Saheb Udaya Singhji and Rani Trilokya Raj Lakshmi of Patan on ~~4th~~ July 1961.		He was the last ruler of Bastar state which was established by a branch of [[Kakatiya]] dynasty.The [[Kakatiya]] dynasty adopted Dev or Deo surname in line with other feudal kings of Odisha ruled under [[Gajapati Kingdom]] in medieval period. The Bastar region was part of greater Kalinga kingdom and an extension of Trikalinga. He was born on 25 June 1929 and was educated at [[Rajkumar College, Raipur]]. He succeeded to throne on 28 October 1936. He was married to Rajkumari Shubhraj Kumari of [[Patan, Rajasthan]] daughter of Raj Rishi Rao Saheb Udaya Singhji and Rani Trilokya Raj Lakshmi of Patan on 4 July 1961.

	He was immensely popular among his people, as he took up the cause of the local tribal people, and provided political leadership against exploitation of natural resources of the region, and corruption in land reforms. On 25 March 1966 he was killed in police firing at the steps of his own palace at [[Jagdalpur]] along with many of his tribal followers.<ref>''The Indian Princes and Their States'', by Barbara N. Ramusack. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004. {{ISBN\|0-521-26727-7}}. ''Page 210''.</ref><ref name=The-Hindu-1>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/a-king-mulls-over-two-strategies/article4652086.ece A king mulls over two strategies], The Hindu, 25 April 2013. (Story about Pravir Chandra's great-nephew.)</ref> The official death toll was twelve including the king, with twenty wounded; the police had fired sixty one rounds. The district magistrate was reported as stating that Pravir Chandra was leading armed [[adivasi]]s against the police, who fired in self-defence.<ref name=The-Hindu-1/>		He was immensely popular among his people, as he took up the cause of the local tribal people, and provided political leadership against exploitation of natural resources of the region, and corruption in land reforms. On 25 March 1966 he was killed in police firing at the steps of his own palace at [[Jagdalpur]] along with many of his tribal followers.<ref>''The Indian Princes and Their States'', by Barbara N. Ramusack. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004. {{ISBN\|0-521-26727-7}}. ''Page 210''.</ref><ref name=The-Hindu-1>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/a-king-mulls-over-two-strategies/article4652086.ece A king mulls over two strategies], The Hindu, 25 April 2013. (Story about Pravir Chandra's great-nephew.)</ref> The official death toll was twelve including the king, with twenty wounded; the police had fired sixty one rounds. The district magistrate was reported as stating that Pravir Chandra was leading armed [[adivasi]]s against the police, who fired in self-defence.<ref name=The-Hindu-1/>
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'''Pravir, King of Bastar''' (''Pravir Chandra Bhanj Dev'' 25 June 1929 – 25 March 1966) was 20th Maharaja of [[Bastar state]] <ref name=gen>[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/bastar.html Bastar (state) - History and Genealogy] ''[[Queensland University]]''.</ref><ref name=hist>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_128.gif Bastar - History] [[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]], 1908. v. 7, p. 122.</ref><ref>[http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM History of Bastar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409233731/http://bastar.nic.in/HISTORY.HTM |date=9 April 2009 }} [[Bastar district]] official website.</ref> who was shot in 1966 for championing the cause of his subjects. He fought for rights of the tribal people. He represented the [[Jagdalpur]] Vidhan Sabha constituency in the undivided [[Madhya Pradesh]] Legislative Assembly following the [[general election]] of 1957.<ref name="General Elections of MP 1957">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_MP_1957.pdf|title=General Elections of MP 1957|publisher=Election Commission Of India|year=2004}}</ref>

He was the last ruler of Bastar state which was established by a branch of [[Kakatiya]] dynasty.The [[Kakatiya]] dynasty adopted Dev or Deo surname in line with other feudal kings of Odisha ruled under [[Gajapati Kingdom]] in medieval period.The Bastar region was part of greater Kalinga kingdom and an extenstion of Trikalinga. He was born on 25 June 1929 and was educated at [[Rajkumar College, Raipur]]. He succeeded to throne on 28 October 1936. He was married to Rajkumari Shubhraj Kumari of [[Patan, Rajasthan]] daughter of Raj Rishi Rao Saheb Udaya Singhji and Rani Trilokya Raj Lakshmi of Patan on 4th July 1961.

He was immensely popular among his people, as he took up the cause of the local tribal people, and provided political leadership against exploitation of natural resources of the region, and corruption in land reforms. On 25 March 1966 he was killed in police firing at the steps of his own palace at [[Jagdalpur]] along with many of his tribal followers.<ref>''The Indian Princes and Their States'', by Barbara N. Ramusack. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-521-26727-7}}. ''Page 210''.</ref><ref name=The-Hindu-1>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/a-king-mulls-over-two-strategies/article4652086.ece A king mulls over two strategies], The Hindu, 25 April 2013. (Story about Pravir Chandra's great-nephew.)</ref> The official death toll was twelve including the king, with twenty wounded; the police had fired sixty one rounds. The district magistrate was reported as stating that Pravir Chandra was leading armed [[adivasi]]s against the police, who fired in self-defence.<ref name=The-Hindu-1/>

==See also==
*[[Bastar state]]
*[[Kakatiya dynasty]]

==References==
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