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| name = Raghubir Singh<br />
| title = [[Raja]]<br />
| succession = [[Raja]] of [[Maihar State|Maihar]]<br />
| reign = {{circa|1852}} – 4 March 1908<br />
| predecessor = [[Mohan Prasad]]<br />
| successor = [[Jadubir Singh]]<br />
| birth_date = {{circa|1843}}<br />
| death_date = 4 March 1908<br />
| issue = {{plainlist|<br />
* [[Jadubir Singh]]<br />
* [[Randhir Singh (ruler)|Randhir Singh]]<br />
* Brajbir Singh<br />
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| house = {{flagicon image|Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Maihar_State.png}} [[Maihar State|Maihar]]<br />
| father = [[Mohan Prasad]]<br />
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| education = {{plain list|<br />
* [[Agra College]]<br />
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'''Raghubir Singh''' was the ruler of [[Maihar State|Maihar]] from 1852 until his death in 1908.<br />
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== Early life, family, and education ==<br />
He was born in 1843 to [[Mohan Prasad]], the [[Thakur (title)|Thakur]] of [[Maihar State|Maihar]].<ref>{{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=172 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Purushotam Vishram Mawjee |url=https://archive.org/details/DurbarAlbum1/ |title=(1911) Imperial durbar album of the Indian princes, chiefs and zamindars, Vol. I. |date=1911 |pages=135}}</ref> He received his education at [[Agra College]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibsVAAAAYAAJ |title=The Asiatic Quarterly Review |date=1886 |publisher=Swan Sonnenshein & Company |pages=22 |language=en}}</ref> He married and had three sons: [[Jadubir Singh]], [[Randhir Singh (ruler)|Randhir Singh]], and Brajbir Singh.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Reign ==<br />
Following his father's death in 1852, he succeeded him as the [[Thakur (title)|Thakur]] of [[Maihar State|Maihar]].<ref name=":0" /> Owing to his minority, the management of the state was placed under the supervision of a British officer, with a promise that once he reached the age of majority, he would be restored to power.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=Edwin T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxiLhPPO9_kC |title=Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: Bundelkhand |date=1874 |publisher=North-Western Provinces Government |pages=535–536 |language=en}}</ref> The officer also instructed him in his duties as a ruler.<ref name=":1" /> He was granted full administrative powers on 2 December 1865.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Cotton |first1=James Sutherland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PnZDAAAAYAAJ |title=Imperial Gazetteer of India |last2=Burn |first2=Sir Richard |last3=Meyer |first3=Sir William Stevenson |date=1908 |publisher=Clarendon Press |pages=28 |language=en}}</ref> The [[British government of India|British government]] conferred on him the title of [[Raja]] as a hereditary distinction on 2 December 1869.<ref name=":2" /> On 1 January 1877, he was also granted a personal distinction of a nine-gun salute, which was made hereditary in 1878.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Department |first=India Foreign and Political |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icwkAQAAIAAJ |title=Central Indian Agency |date=1909 |publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India |pages=226–227 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35692/ |title=Memoranda On The Indian States 1921 |date=1922 |pages=17–18}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died in [[Varanasi]] on 4 March 1908 and was succeeded by his eldest son, [[Jadubir Singh]], as the [[Raja]] of [[Maihar State|Maihar]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1843 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:1908 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Hindu monarchs]]<br />
[[Category:People from British India]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Hindus]]</div>Victorxsi