| Raghubir Singh | |
|---|---|
| Raja | |
| Raja of Maihar | |
| Reign | c. 1852 – 4 March 1908 |
| Predecessor | Mohan Prasad |
| Successor | Jadubir Singh |
| Born | c. 1843 |
| Died | 4 March 1908 |
| Issue |
|
| House |  Maihar |
| Father | Mohan Prasad |
| Education | |
| 2= | |
Raghubir Singh was the ruler of Maihar from 1852 until his death in 1908.
Early life, family, and education[edit | edit source]
He was born in 1843 to Mohan Prasad, the Thakur of Maihar.[1][2] He received his education at Agra College.[3] He married and had three sons: Jadubir Singh, Randhir Singh, and Brajbir Singh.[2]
Reign[edit | edit source]
Following his father's death in 1852, he succeeded him as the Thakur of Maihar.[2] 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.[4] The officer also instructed him in his duties as a ruler.[4] He was granted full administrative powers on 2 December 1865.[5] The British government conferred on him the title of Raja as a hereditary distinction on 2 December 1869.[5] On 1 January 1877, he was also granted a personal distinction of a nine-gun salute, which was made hereditary in 1878.[6][7]
Death[edit | edit source]
He died in Varanasi on 4 March 1908 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Jadubir Singh, as the Raja of Maihar.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lethbridge, Sir Roper (1900). 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. S. Low, Marston & Company. p. 172.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Purushotam Vishram Mawjee (1911). (1911) Imperial durbar album of the Indian princes, chiefs and zamindars, Vol. I. p. 135.
- ↑ The Asiatic Quarterly Review. Swan Sonnenshein & Company. 1886. p. 22.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Atkinson, Edwin T. (1874). Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: Bundelkhand. North-Western Provinces Government. pp. 535–536.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cotton, James Sutherland; Burn, Sir Richard; Meyer, Sir William Stevenson (1908). Imperial Gazetteer of India. Clarendon Press. p. 28.
- ↑ Department, India Foreign and Political (1909). Central Indian Agency. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. pp. 226–227.
- ↑ Not Available (1922). Memoranda On The Indian States 1921. pp. 17–18.