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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2014}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Rampal Singh
| title = '''Raja of Kalakankar'''
| image =
| caption =
| reign = 1885–1909
| predecessor = Raja Hanumant Singh
| successor = Raja Ramesh Singh
| spouse = Subhag Kunwar<br/>Princess Alice (an English lady)<br/>Rani Radha (a muslim girl)
| issue = Ramesh Singh
| full name = Raja Sir Rampal Singh of Kalakankar
| house =
| father = [[Lal Pratap Singh]]
| mother = Princess Diggach Kunwari
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1849|08|22}}
| birth_place = Rampur Dharupur, [[Kalakankar]], [[Oudh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1909|02|28}}
| death_place =
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
}}

'''Raja Rampal Singh''' (22 August 1849 – 28 February 1909) was a [[ruler]] of [[Kalakankar]] estate of [[Oudh]] (Now in [[Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh]]) from 1885 to 1909.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.royalfamilyofindia.com/kalakankar/
|title=Kalakankar (Taluq)
|date=
|work=Royal Family of India
}}</ref>
Rampal Singh was a Congress sympathizer. He was one of the founding member of [[Indian National Congress Party]]. In consequence, [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and other congress leader used to visit him quite frequently. [[Madan Mohan Malviya|Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya]] had very intimate relations with Raja of Kalakankar. The Raja Saheb of Kalakankar had started a Hindi weekly, Hindusthan, in 1883 to spread the message of freedom.

His father [[Lal Pratap Singh]], was a revolutionary during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] and was killed in the Battle of Chanda.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lal Pratap Singh|url=http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Stamps2009.aspx|publisher=indiapost.gov.in|access-date=15 February 2013}}</ref>

== Publication of Hindosthan ==
The Hindusthan was started by Raja Rampal Singh of Kalakankar. Even though, from the point of view of communications, this place was hardly suitable for publishing a newspaper,{{original research inline|date=April 2017}} the Raja was fond of it and had it connected telegraphically. The only son of his father, Rampal Singh was ambitious.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} He learnt Hindi, English and Sanskrit, and became an honorary magistrate at the age of eighteen. He went to the United Kingdom, along with his wife. After two years she died and he came back to India with an English wife. He again returned to Britain. In August 1883, he started the monthly Hindosthan from the UK. This was in English and Hindi. Its Urdu edition was also brought out for some time. Later, it became a weekly. The articles in Hindi and Urdu were the Raja's own, those in English of Mr. George Temple's. He returned to Kalakankar in 1885, and started the country's first Hindi daily newspaper Hindosthan.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/hindi-media-and-an-unreal-discourse/article142358.ece
|title=Hindi media and an unreal discourse
|date=18 November 2009
|work=The Hindu
}}</ref>

Hindosthan Published by Raja Rampal Singh and was edited by none other than the founder of the Benaras Hindu University, Madanmohan Malviya. Malviya joined work on two conditions: Raja would never meet him in an inebriated state and would not influence the newspaper’s editorial policy.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main12.asp?filename=op051405pulpit.asp
|title=Newspapers in UP: Caught in the profit trap
|date=14 May 2005
|work=[[Tehelka]]
}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Raja Rampal Singh married firstly, to Rani Subhag Kunwar, who died about 1871 in London, and married secondly, Princess Alice (an English lady). He married thirdly, Rani Radha (a Muslim).{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

== Other ==
He was president of [[Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha]] for year 1899.
In 1905, [[Sir Chhotu Ram]] worked as the assistant Private Secretary to Raja Rampal Singh.<ref>{{cite news
|url = http://www.haryana-online.com/people/sir_chhotu_ram.htm
|title = Sir Chhotu Ram
|date =
|work = Hariyanaonline
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131002005110/http://haryana-online.com/People/sir_chhotu_ram.htm
|archive-date = 2 October 2013
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

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