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Bishan Singh Of Maihar
Bishan Singh was the Thakur of Maihar from 1826 until his death in 1850. Biography Upon the death of his father, Durjan Singh, in 1826, his dominions were divided into two portions: Maihar and Bijairaghogarh. Bishan Singh received the former, while his brother, Prag Das, got the latter. Over time, he fell into serious debt and requested the British in 1849 to place his state under their management. He died a year later in 1850, and was succeeded by his son, Mohan Prasad Mohan Prasad was Thakur of Maihar from 1850 until his death in 1852. Biography Upon his father Bishan Singh's death in 1850, he succeeded him as the Thakur of Maihar Maihar is a city in the Maihar district of the Indian state of Madhya P ..., to his title, rank, and dignity. References 1850 deaths Hindu monarchs {{India-royal-stub Rajput monarchs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thakur (title)
Thakur is a historical Indian feudalism, feudal Indian honorifics, title of the Indian subcontinent. It is also used as a surname in the present day. The female variant of the title is Thakurani or Thakurain, and is also used to describe the wife of a Thakur. There are varying opinions among scholars about its origin. Some scholars suggest that it is not mentioned in the Sanskrit texts preceding 500 Common Era, BCE, but speculates that it might have been a part of the vocabulary of the dialects spoken in North India, northern India before the Gupta Empire. It is viewed to have been derived from word ''Thakkura'' which, according to several scholars, was not an original word of the Sanskrit Languages of India, language but a borrowed word in the Indian lexis from the Tukharistan region of Uzbekistan. Another view-point is that ''Thakkura'' is a loan word from the Prakrit language. Scholars have suggested differing meanings for the word, i.e. "god", "lord", and "master of the es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maihar State
Maihar State was a princely state in India during the British Raj, located in what is today Madhya Pradesh, central India. The state had an area of , and a population of 63,702 in 1901. The state, which was watered by the Tons River, consists mainly of alluvial soil covering sandstone, and is fertile except in the hilly district of the south. A large area was under forest, the produce of which provided a small export trade. The state gained India-wide and later, worldwide fame for Maihar gharana, a gharana or school of Indian classical music. It is one of the most prominent gharanas of the 20th century; much of the fame of Hindustani classical music in the west stems from this gharana. History Maihar was originally a dependency of Rewa, but Harde Sah, the eldest son of Chhatrasal, took advantage of the minority of Audhut Singh Ju Deo of Rewa, attacked him, and annexed Maihar and Bijairaghogarh to his territories. Hindupat, the Raja of Panna, granted Maihar as a jagi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durjan Singh (ruler)
Durjan Singh was the Thakur of Maihar from 1790 until his death in 1826. Biography He was the younger son of Beni Singh and succeeded his eldest brother, Rajdhar Singh, to the gaddi of Maihar in 1790 when Ali Bahadur of Banda restored it to him after conquering it from his brother. When the British government occupied Bundelkhand, he executed a deed of allegiance with them in 1806, and they confirmed him in his possession. The sanad he received in 1806 was later revised in 1814. Upon his death in 1826, his dominions were divided into two parts.{{Cite book , last=Department , first=India Foreign and Political , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icwkAQAAIAAJ , title=Central Indian Agency , date=1909 , publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India , pages=7–8,226–227 , language=en His eldest son, Bishan Singh, inherited the Maihar, while his second son, Prag Das, received Bijairaghogarh Bijairaghogarh (or Vijayraghavgarh) was a princely state in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohan Prasad
Mohan Prasad was Thakur of Maihar from 1850 until his death in 1852. Biography Upon his father Bishan Singh's death in 1850, he succeeded him as the Thakur of Maihar Maihar is a city in the Maihar district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Maihar District. Maihar is known for the Maa Sharda Mandir situated in the city. It is one of the Shakti Peeth. Origin o .... However, his reign was short-lived, as he died in 1852, and his son, Raghubir Singh, inherited his title, rank, and dignity as a minor.{{Cite book , last=Purushotam Vishram Mawjee , url=https://archive.org/details/DurbarAlbum1/ , title=(1911) Imperial durbar album of the Indian princes, chiefs and zamindars, Vol. I. , date=1911 , pages=135 References Date of birth unknown Year of birth unknown 1852 deaths Indian Hindus Rajput monarchs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bijairaghogarh
Bijairaghogarh (or Vijayraghavgarh) was a princely state in India. It was disestablished due to its participation in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. History Durjan Singh, the Thakur of Maihar, had two sons: Bishan Singh and Prag Das. After his death in 1826, his territory was divided into two parts. His eldest son, Bishan Singh, succeeded him as the Thakur of Maihar, while his younger son, Prag Das, was granted Bijairaghogarh. The state first came into contact with the East India Company when, through a sanad on 29 February 1828, it recognized Prag Das as the ruler of Bijairaghogarh. It was confiscated in 1858 by the East India Company due to the involvement of its Thakur, Surju Prasad, in the Revolt of 1857. Upon its confiscation, the then ruler of Maihar claimed that since it had originally been part of Maihar, it should be returned to him. However, his claim was rejected, and in 1865, it was incorporated into the territories administered by the Chief Commissioner of the Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prag Das
Prag Das was the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh from 1826 until his death in 1845. Biography He was born to Durjan Singh, the Thakur of Maihar, and, upon his father’s death in 1826, inherited the chiefship of Bijairaghogarh. The British government conferred a sanad upon him on 29 February 1828, and through it, they recognized him as the chief of Bijairaghogarh. He conducted the affairs of his state with great success and introduced many beneficial reforms. During his reign, the Bijairaghogarh was considered a flourishing place with an efficient and benevolent administration. He built a temple dedicated to Lord Vijayraghav and a fort named Vijayraghavgarh. He died in 1845, and his son Surju Prasad Surju Prasad was the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh from 1845 until his death in 1858. Biography He was born to Prag Das and, upon his father's death in 1845, succeeded him as the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh. At the time of his accession, he was on ... succeeded him to the title.{{C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained Company rule in India, control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. Originally Chartered company, chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies," the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, Potass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1850 Deaths
Events January–March * January 29 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress. * January 31 – The University of Rochester is founded in Rochester, New York. * January – Sacramento floods. * February 28 – The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City. * March 5 – The Britannia Bridge opens over the Menai Strait in Wales. * March 7 – United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech, in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850, in order to prevent a possible civil war. * March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel ''The Scarlet Letter'' is published in Boston, Massachusetts. * March 19 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. * March 31 – The paddle steamer , bound from Cork to London, is wrecked in the English Channel with the loss of all 250 on board. April–June * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city in Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
