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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo
| title = Maharaja
| image = Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo.jpg
| caption = Photograph of Maharaja Shah Deo
| succession = 61st [[Nagvanshis of Chotanagpur|Nagvanshi king]]
| reign = 1869–1950
| predecessor = [[Jagannath Shah Deo]]
| successor = [[Lal Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo]]
| birth_date = 23 March 1866
| birth_place = [[Bharno]], Chota Nagpur Division, Bengal Presidency
| coronation = 1872
| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|9|21|1866|3|23|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Ratu, Ranchi|Ratu]], Ranchi, Bihar (now [[Jharkhand]])
| spouse = {{plainlist|*Maharani Mohan Kumari (m.1881, died.1905)
*Saudamani Devi}}
| issue = {{plainlist|
*Neeladhri Nath Shah Deo
*Yugal Kishore Nath Shah Deo
*Braj Kishore Nath Shah Deo
*Nand Kishore Nath Shah Deo
*Rameshwar Nath Shahdeo
*Asheshwar Nath Shah Deo
*Raj Kishore Nath Shah Deo
*Ghanshyam Devi
*Jai Kishore Nath Shahdeo}}
| dynasty = [[Nagvanshi dynasty|Nagvanshi]]
| father =
| mother =
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| regent =
| reg-type =
}}
'''Udai Pratap Nath Shahdeo''' (23 March 1866 {{En dash}} 21 September 1950), was the [[Maharaja]] of Chotanagpur Zamindari estate. He donated large tracts of land to build infrastructure of [[Ranchi]] city. He built the Ratu Palace in Ranchi in 1901.<ref name="Jagran">{{Cite web|url=https://www.jagran.com/jharkhand/ranchi-famous-tourist-destinations-in-ranchi-19774025.html|title=बीच और हिल स्टेशन से अलग इस बार छुट्टियों में रांची आएं, जहां देखने को हैं काफी कुछ|date=20 November 2019|website=jagran}}</ref> He was conferred the [[Kaiser-i-Hind Medal]] for public services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/ratu-royalty-stands-by-kin-cong-loses-traditional-trump-card-to-jvm-in-hatia-run-up/cid/420150|title=Ratu royalty stands by kin - Cong loses traditional trump card to JVM in Hatia run-up|date=20 May 2012|website=telegraphindia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.119550/2015.119550.The-Nagbanshis-And-The-Cheros_djvu.txt|title=The Nagbanshis And The Cheros|website=archive.org}}</ref> He reigned for 81 years, and 74 days, the longest-reigning Indian monarch, the longest-reigning Princely State ruler and [[List of longest-reigning monarchs#Monarchs of dependent or constituent states with verifiable reigns by exact date|third longest verifiable reign]] of any monarch in history.

==Early life==
Deo was born on 23 March 1866 in [[Bharno]]. The king [[Jagannath Shah Deo]] died in 1869. As mentioned in Mangobinda Banargee's book "Historical Outline of Pre-British Chotanagpur", he was the nephew of Maharaja Jagannath Shah Deo. As Maharaja Jagannath Shah Deo had no sons, Udai Pratap Shah Deo succeeded to the throne after several court cases as other relatives of Maharaja claimed to be entitled to become king. Then the queen of King Jagannath Shah Deo, Luchun Kunwar shifted from Bharno to Ratu in 1879 and a palace was built in 1975.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUueDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT219|title=Mughal Administration and the Zamindars of Bihar|isbn=9781000651522|last1=Ansari|first1=Tahir Hussain|date=20 June 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Deo married Rajkumari Mohan Kumari, daughter of Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh Deo, Raja of [[Saraikela State]], in 1881. Rajkumari Mohan Kumari died in 1905. His second marriage was to Saudamani Devi, daughter of Raja Ram Kanhai Singh of [[Barabhum|Barabhum Estate]]. He had nine sons and two daughters.<ref name="royalty"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/amazing-india/navratangarh-lost-kingdom-of-the-nagvanshis/|title=Navratangarh: Lost Kingdom of the Nagvanshis|website=livehistoryindia|date=27 August 2019|access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref>

==Reign==
King Udai Pratap Nath Shah Deo donated large tracts of the land in Ranchi to develop its infrastructure. He donated land for building [[Ranchi University]], [[Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam|G.E.L church]], [[Gossner College]], Ranchi Club, Pepe compound and other institutions. He donated 320 acres of land to G.E.L. Church and 17 acres of land for the construction of Ranchi Club.<ref name="royalty">{{cite web|url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/c/chotanagpur.html|title=CHOTA-NAGPUR (Zamindari)|website=members.iinet.net.au|access-date=27 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505023305/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/c/chotanagpur.html|archive-date=5 May 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ten thousand acres of land of [[McCluskieganj]] was built on his land.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.outlookhindi.com/country/state/worlds-fifth-longest-monarchical-system-remembering-the-nagavansh-on-the-pretext-of-documentation-60775|title=दुनिया की पांचवीं सबसे लंबी राजतंत्रीय व्‍यवस्‍था, डॉक्‍यूमेंट्री के बहाने नागवंश की याद|date=9 August 2021|publisher=outlookhindi|access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref>

He built Ratu Palace in [[Ratu, Ranchi|Ratu]]. The construction of Palace started in 1899 and completed in 1901. The Palace has 103 rooms and spread over 22 acres. It was constructed by British company of Kolkata and designed after [[Buckingham Palace]] in [[Westminster]], London.<ref name="Jagran"/><ref name="royalty"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/ratu-royals-welcome-goddess/cid/1312810|title=RATU ROYALS WELCOME GODDESS|date=10 January 2014|website=telegraphindia}}</ref>

==Death==
He died in 1950. He was succeeded by his great-grandson, [[Lal Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo]].<ref name="royalty"/>

==References==
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