Jagatjit Singh

Sir Jagatjit Singh
Maharaja of Kapurthala
Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala.
Maharaja of Kapurthala
Reign 3 September 1877 – 15 August 1947
Predecessor Kharrak Singh
Successor Monarchy abolished
Born (1872-11-24)24 November 1872
Kapurthala, Kapurthala State, Punjab, India
Died 19 June 1949(1949-06-19) (aged 76)
Kapurthala, PEPSU, Punjab, India
Religion Sikh

Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur GCSI GCIE GBE (24 November 1872 – 19 June 1949) was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Kapurthala in the British Empire of India from 1877 until his death in 1949. He ascended the throne of Kapurthala state on 16 October 1877. He assumed full ruling powers in November 1890 and then commenced a career as a world traveller and Francophile. He received the title of Maharaja in 1911. He built palaces and gardens in the city of Kapurthala; his main palace Jagatjit Palace there was modelled on the Palace of Versailles.

He also built in the Kapurthala city's mosque and a handsome gurudwara at Sultanpur Lodhi, sacred to Guru Nanak.

He served as the Indian Representative to the League of Nations General Assembly in Geneva in 1925, 1927 and 1929,[1] attended the Round Table Conference in 1931 and was Lt Governor of the PEPSU at the time of his death in 1949, aged 76. He was cousin of Sardar Bhagat Singh, one of the few Indian Justices of High Court during the British Raj. His grandson Arun Singh was a Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government.

Titles

His full name was:

Major-General His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE, GBE.

During his life he acquired many other titles:

  • 1872–1877: Tikka Raja Sri Jagatjit Singh
  • 1877–1897: His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Raja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Raja of Kapurthala
  • 1897–1911: His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Raja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Raja of Kapurthala, KCSI
  • 1911–1918: His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI
  • 1918–1921: Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI
  • 1921–1926: Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE
  • 1926–1927: Colonel His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE
  • 1927–1943: Colonel His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE, GBE
  • 1943–1948: Brigadier His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE, GBE
  • 1948–1949: Major-General His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI, GCIE, GBE

Honours

Ribbon bar, as it would look today.

This is list of the orders and medals awarded to Jagatjit Singh, in the same order as appears on the ribbon bar:[2]

British Decorations

Medals

Foreign Decorations

Marriages

  • Singh married firstly at Paprola, on 16 April 1886, Harbans Kaur, daughter of Ranjit Singh Gularia of Paprola (died 17 October 1941 in Mussoorie).
  • Married secondly at Katoch, 1891, Parvati Kaur, daughter of a Sardar of Katoch (died 20 February 1944 in Kapurthala).
  • Married thirdly, 1895, Lachmi Kaur, a Princess of a Rajput family from Bashahr (died September 1959 in Kapurthala).
  • Married fourthly, Kanari, daughter of a Dewan of Jubbal (died circa 1910).
  • Married fifthly at Paris, 28 January 1908 (later divorced), Prem Kaur [née Anita Delgado], (born 1890 in Málaga, Spain, died 7 July 1962 in Madrid, Spain).
  • Married sixthly at Kapurthala, 1942, Tara Devi [née Eugenia Maria Grossupova], she was the daughter of a Czech count and Nina Maria Grossupova, an actress. She committed suicide by jumping off the Qutub Minar in Delhi on 9 December 1946 in Delhi.

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See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The League of Nations Photo Collections
  2. ↑ Biography
  3. ↑ "No. 33333". The London Gazette. 29 November 1927. p. 7662.
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