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[[File:Maharajah Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo with cheetah kill 1948 BNHS.jpg|thumb|280px|Three of the last [[Asiatic cheetah]]s recorded from India were shot down in 1947, by Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo of Korea, as seen in this photo submitted by his private secretary to [[Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society|JBNHS]].<ref name="Divyabhanusinh1999">{{cite book |author= Divyabhanusinh |year=1999 |title=The End of a Trail: the Cheetah in India |publisher=Banyan Books, New Delhi}}</ref>]]
'''Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo''' was a ruler of erstwhile [[Korea State]].<ref>{{cite news|title=‘The Story of India’s Cheetahs’: How the cheetah went from being hunter to hunted|url=https://scroll.in/article/1051042/the-story-of-indias-cheetahs-how-the-cheetah-went-from-being-hunter-to-hunted|website=Scroll.in|date=17 June 2023}}</ref> He was crowned as the king of Korea in 1925 and continued to rule the state till the state's merger with independent India on 1 January 1948.<ref name=gov>{{cite web|title=District Korea|url=https://korea.gov.in/history/|website=Government of Chhattisgarh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Who was Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo, man responsible for killing India’s last cheetahs?|url=https://opoyi.com/india/who-was-maharaja-ramanuj-pratap-singh-deo-man-responsible-for-killing-indias-last-cheetahs-753118/|date=2022|website=Opoyi.com}}</ref> He had represented the ruling Chief, in the second Round Table Conference held in London in 1931.<ref name=gov/> He was a [[Rajput]] by caste.<ref>{{cite news|title=Will the Kuno Cheetah can die like Gujarat?|url=https://allgujaratnews.in/en/will-the-kuno-cheetah-can-die-like-gujarat/|date=20 September 2022|website=All Gujarat News|author=Dilip Patel}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Report on the Administration of the Feudatory States of the Central Provinces|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=oIo-AQAAMAAJ&q=Ramanuj+Pratap+Singh+Deo+rajput&dq=Ramanuj+Pratap+Singh+Deo+rajput&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis75eb29yAAxVnhGMGHYRfAisQ6AF6BAgFEAM|year=2022}}</ref> He is known for killing the last three surviving [[Asiatic cheetah]]s of India.<ref>{{cite news|title=कौन थे महाराज रामानुज प्रताप सिंह, जिन्होंने आखिरी भारतीय चीता को गोली मारी थी?|date=17 September 2022|website=The Lallantop|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/news/post/story-of-maharaja-ramanuj-pratap-singh-deo-who-hunted-last-cheetah-of-india}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cheetah: Did India’s erstwhile nobility cause its wildlife’s downfall? Apply nuance, some say|url=https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/wildlife-biodiversity/cheetah-did-india-s-erstwhile-nobility-cause-its-wildlife-s-downfall-apply-nuance-some-say-85007|date=19 September 2022|website=Down to earth}}</ref>

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