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{{Distinguish|Yadwinder Singh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| pre-nominals = Maharaja [[Sir]]
| name = Yadavindra Singh
| post-nominals = [[GCIE]], [[Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire|GBE]]
{{Infobox royalty
| embed = yes
| image = Yadvinder Singh Mahendra Bahadur (1971).jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Singh in 1971
| succession = [[Maharaja of Patiala]]
| moretext =
| reign = 23 March 1938 – 15 August 1947
| reign-type =
| coronation =
| predecessor = [[Maharaja Bhupinder Singh]]
| pre-type =
| successor = [[Amarinder Singh]]
| suc-type =
| regent = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1=[[Liaqat Hayat Khan]]}}
| reg-type = {{nowrap|[[Patiala State|Minister of State]]}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|01|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Patiala]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|06|17|1914|01|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Hem Prabha Devi|1935|17 June 1974}} <br> {{marriage|[[Mehtab Kaur of Patiala]]|1938|17 June 1974}}
| spouse-type = [[Maharani]]s
| consort = 
| issue = {{unbulleted list|Heminder Kaur (daughter)|Rupinder Kaur (daughter)|[[Amarinder Singh]] (son)|Malvinder Singh (son)}}
| dynasty = [[Phulkian]]
| father = [[Maharaja Bhupinder Singh]]
| mother = Bakhtawar Kaur
| religion = [[Sikhism]]
}}
| module2 = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes
| office = Indian Ambassador to [[Italy]]
| term = 1965-1966
| office2 = Indian Ambassador to the [[Netherlands]]
| term2 = 1971-1974
| predecessor2 = Jagan Nath Dharmija
| successor2 = K. S. Bajpai
}}
| module3 = {{Infobox cricketer | embed = yes
| batting = Right-hand bat
| bowling = -
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 84
| bat avg1 = 42.00
| 100s/50s1 = -/1
| top score1 = 60
| deliveries1 = -
| wickets1 = -
| bowl avg1 = -
| fivefor1 = -
| tenfor1 = -
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| catches/stumpings1= 2/-
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
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| runs2 = 1629
| bat avg2 = 20.88
| 100s/50s2 = 2/7
| top score2 = 132
| deliveries2 = 2891
| wickets2 = 50
| bowl avg2 = 30.73
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = -
| best bowling2 = 5/131
| catches/stumpings2= 32/-
| country = India
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1934-1934

| onetest = True
| testdebutfor =
| testdebutagainst = England
| testdebutdate = 10 February
| testdebutyear = 1934
| lasttestdate = 10 February
| lasttestfor =
| lasttestagainst =
| lasttestyear = 1934

| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/32278.html ESPNcricinfo
| date = 31 May
| year = 2020
}}
}}

'''Maharaja Sir Yadavinder Singh''' ({{audio|Yuvraj_of_Patiala.ogg|pronunciation}}; 7 January 1914 – 17 June 1974) was the 9th and last ruling [[Maharaja of Patiala]] from 1938 to 1971. He was also an [[India]]n [[cricket]]er who played in one [[Test cricket|Test]] [[English cricket team in India in 1933–34|in 1934]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/666983 |title=The Greatest: One Test Wonders |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/32278.html |title=Yadavindra Singh|access-date=31 May 2020 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>

==Early life and family==
[[File:Yadavindra Singh of Patiala.jpg|thumb|Sir Yadavindra Singh of Patiala|alt=|left]]
Born at [[Patiala]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] in 1914, Maharaja Yadavindra attended [[Aitchison College]], [[Lahore]]. He served in the Patiala State Police, became its Inspector General and served in Malaya, Italy and Burma during the Second World War. In 1935, he married his first wife, [[Hem Prabha Devi]] of [[Saraikela State]] (1913–2014).

He succeeded his father, [[Maharaja Bhupinder Singh]], as the [[Maharaja of Patiala]] on 23 March 1938 and subsequently married his second wife, [[Mehtab Kaur of Patiala|Mehtab Kaur]] (1922–2017), in 1938. It was believed that his second marriage was due to the stated reason that his first wife being issueless, which was in fact, was due to the influences of Akali leaders who wanted the future Maharaja of Patiala to marry to a Jat Sikh family in order to beget genuine Sikh heirs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/tales-from-two-punjabs/446088.html|title=Tales from two Punjabs|last=Singh|first=K.C.|date=3 August 2017|website=[[tribuneindia.com]]}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Yadavindra served as president of the [[Indian Olympic Association]] from 1938 to 1960. He was instrumental in organizing the [[Asian Games]]. He founded [[Yadavindra Public School]]. Lal Bagh Palace, the building in which Yadavindra Public School is housed was donated by Sir Yadavindra Singh. He was a noted horticulturist by passion and later served as chairman of Indian Horticulture Development Council. He was also the president of [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]].

Following his accession to the throne of Patiala, Yadavindra pursued a political and diplomatic career, serving as chancellor of the [[Chamber of Princes]] from 1943 to 1944. In 1947, when India gained [[Independence Day (India)|independence]], he was the pro-chancellor of the [[Chamber of Princes]]. At a special session he said "After centuries time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all (princely states) should unite for our motherland" and persuaded many other rulers to join India.

===Partition (1947) ===
During the [[Partition of India]] numerous pogroms occurred in and around the princely state of Patiala.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mustafa Janjua|first1=Haroon|title=Daily Times - Unheard cries: atrocities in Patiala, 1947|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/106317/unheard-cries-atrocities-in-patiala-1947/|date=January 7, 2014}}</ref> In several cases, organized bands of Sikhs were responsible for atrocities. The late [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), witnessed the events and claimed in an interview: ‘The communal attacks on the minorities were definitely planned. I know more about the persons involved in the eastern wing because I was there. I saw those dreadful acts with my own eyes. In that conspiracy, the Maharaja of Patiala was involved. The idea was that if the Muslims were driven out.'” The attacks on Sikhs and Hindus in March 1947 in Rawalpindi are regarded as one of the major crimes that triggered off others. Nehru believed the Maharaja had sought to ethnically cleanse the territory of Muslims as part of this effort.
Maharajas of Patiala and Faridkot, and Yadavindra Singh is quoted as having said "We won't leave a Muslim here" at a party with British officers.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hajari|first1=Nisid|title=Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition|url=https://books.google.com/?id=eAUnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158#v=onepage&f=false|isbn=9781445648095|date=15 June 2015}}</ref> The Foreign Minister of Patiala, Sardar Bari Ram Sharma issued a denial stating "I definitely assert that no Patiala soldier has associated himself with or has been involved in any killings in any part of the East Punjab."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=Ganda|title=A Diary of the Partition Days - 1947|journal=Journal of Indian History|date=1960|volume=XXXV|issue=Part I, No. 112|page=270|url=https://archive.org/stream/ADiaryOfThePartitionDays1947Dr.GandaSingh/A+Diary+Of+The+Partition+Days+1947+-+Dr.+Ganda+Singh_djvu.txt}}</ref>

He agreed to the incorporation of the [[princely state]] into India on 5 May 1948. He was [[Rajpramukh]] of the new [[Indian state]] of [[Patiala and East Punjab States Union]] until it was merged with [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] in 1956.

=== Donation ===
In 1956 Yadvinder Singh donated the Anand Bhawan, a 150 [[bigha]] palace, to the Government of Punjab (before the creation of Himachal) for a holiday home for poor children, which was later leased out to [[Ramdev|Baba Ramdev]] for his [[Patanjali Trust]].

==Later life and death==
[[File:Sir Yadavinder Singh 9th and last Maharaja of Patiala in London.jpg|thumb|Sir Yadavindra Singh with leading members of the Sikh and Indian business community in London.|alt=|left]]
He continued his career from 1956 onwards, serving as Indian delegate to the [[United Nations General Assembly]] from 1956 to 1957 and to [[UNESCO]] in 1958. He also headed the Indian delegation to the [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]] on and off during 1959-1969. Sir Yadavindra served as Indian Ambassador to Italy (1965–1966) and as Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1971 until 17 June 1974, when he died suddenly in office at [[The Hague]] from [[heart failure]], age 60. On specific instructions of [[Indira Gandhi]], he was cremated with full state honours.
He was succeeded as family head by his son Captain [[Amarinder Singh]], who is a politician with the Congress Party and who served as [[Chief Minister]] of the Indian State of [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] from 2002 to 2007 and again starting in 2017. His daughter, Heminder Kaur, was married to [[K. Natwar Singh]], the former external affairs minister of India.

==Titles==
*1913-1935: [[Sri]] [[Yuvaraja]] Yadavindra Singh Sahib-ji
*1935-1938: [[Lieutenant]] Sri Yuvaraja Yadavindra Singh Sahib-ji
*1938-1939: Lieutenant [[His Highness]] Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, [[Maharajadhiraja]] Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra [[Khan Bahadur|Bahadur]], Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, [[Maharaja]] of [[Patiala State|Patiala]]
*1939-1942: [[Captain (land and air)|Captain]] His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra Bahadur, Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, Maharaja of Patiala
*1942-1944: [[Major]] His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja [[Sir]] Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra Bahadur, Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, Maharaja of Patiala, [[Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire|GBE]]
*1944-1945: [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja Sir Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra Bahadur, Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, Maharaja of Patiala, GBE
*1945-1946: [[Major-General]] His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja Sir Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra Bahadur, Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, Maharaja of Patiala, [[Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire|GBE]]
*1946-1971: [[Lieutenant-General]] His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mansur-i-Zaman, Amir ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar, 108 Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan, Maharaja Sir Yadavindra Singh, Mahendra Bahadur, Yadu Vansha Vatans Bhatti Kul Bushan, Maharaja of Patiala, [[GCIE]], GBE
*1971-1974: [[Lieutenant-General]] Sir Yadavindra Singh, [[GCIE]], GBE{{Citation needed|date = February 2021}}

==Honours==
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[[File:Order of the Indian Empire Ribbon.svg|100px]]
[[File:Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.png|100px]]
[[File:39-45 Star BAR.svg|100px]]

[[File:Africa Star BAR.svg|100px]]
[[File:Burma Star BAR.svg|100px]]
[[File:Italy Star BAR.svg|100px]]
[[File:War Medal 39-45 BAR.svg|100px]]

[[File:India Service Medal BAR.svg|100px]]
[[File:GeorgeVSilverJubileum-ribbon.png|100px]]
[[File:GeorgeVICoronationRibbon.png|100px]]
[[File:Indian Independence medal 1947.svg|100px]]
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{{cn|date=June 2020}}

*[[King George V Silver Jubilee Medal]]-1935
*[[King George VI Coronation Medal]]-1937
*[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] (GBE)-1942
*[[1939-1945 Star]]-1945
*[[Burma Star]]-1945
*[[Africa Star]]-1945
*[[Italy Star]]-1945
*[[British War Medal]]-1945
*India Service Medal-1945
*[[Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (GCIE)-1946
*Indian Independence Medal-1947
*Grand Cross of the Romanian order
*Grand Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic]] of Italy-1966
*Six other foreign honours

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/32278.html Yadavindra Singh] on [[ESPNcricinfo]]

{{commons category|Yadavindra Singh}}
*[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/p/patiala.html Genealogy of the rulers of Patiala]
* [https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/films/item/wilson-pemberton-collection-film-1/ 1933 Film made by R.M. Wilson and M. Pemberton, Marriage of the Maharaj Kumar Yadavindra Singh of Patiala]

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