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| image | | image = Maharana Shambhu Singh throwing a javelin, By Tara, Mewar 1866.jpg | ||
| caption | | caption = Maharana Shambhu Singh throwing a javelin, By court painter Tara (active 1836-1870), Mewar 1866 | ||
| title | | title = | ||
| succession = [[Maharana]] of [[Udaipur State]] | | succession = [[Maharana]] of [[Udaipur State]] | ||
| reign | | reign = 1861–74 | ||
| predecessor = [[Swarup Singh of Udaipur|Swarup Singh]] | | predecessor = [[Swarup Singh of Udaipur|Swarup Singh]] | ||
| successor | | successor = [[Sajjan Singh of Udaipur|Sajjan Singh]] | ||
| birth_date = {{birth date|1847|12|22|df=y}} | | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|12|22|df=y}} | ||
| death_date = {{death date and age|1874|10|07|1847|12|22|df=y}} | | death_date = {{death date and age|1874|10|07|1847|12|22|df=y}} | ||
| father | | father = [[Sher Singh of Bagore|Sher Singh]] of [[Bagore]] | ||
| mother | | mother = | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Mewari Rana}} | {{Mewari Rana}} | ||
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After attaining complete control, he set up various new rules and offices for improving administrative resources, organised administration and income of temples and sacred places and introduced new legal code for Mewar. Under him the military was reorganised, various jail reforms were introduced and new construction of roads and railway tracks started. In spite of being formally uneducated, he gave education supreme importance and expanded various existing schools and introduced numerous new ones. Most importantly, he was the first to set up a school for girls and thus promoted opportunities of education for everyone. He enforced special measures to curb the Sati pratha and imposed heavy monetary fines on offenders. | After attaining complete control, he set up various new rules and offices for improving administrative resources, organised administration and income of temples and sacred places and introduced new legal code for Mewar. Under him the military was reorganised, various jail reforms were introduced and new construction of roads and railway tracks started. In spite of being formally uneducated, he gave education supreme importance and expanded various existing schools and introduced numerous new ones. Most importantly, he was the first to set up a school for girls and thus promoted opportunities of education for everyone. He enforced special measures to curb the Sati pratha and imposed heavy monetary fines on offenders. | ||
Thus with various reforms in public facilities and infrastructure, Shambhu Singh was considered a liberal and well-managed king of his times. But with his untimely death at a young age of 27 years, his dreams of the revival of his homeland to the ancient golden times were stalled. He left behind no heir and his | Thus with various reforms in public facilities and infrastructure, Shambhu Singh was considered a liberal and well-managed king of his times. But with his untimely death at a young age of 27 years, his dreams of the revival of his homeland to the ancient golden times were stalled. He left behind no heir and his nephew [[Sajjan Singh of Udaipur|Sajjan Singh]], who himself was a minor at the time of his death; succeeded him and went ahead in continuation with the reforms paved by his predecessor. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||