Lt. Col.

Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great Monarch, king" or "high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Em ...

Manabendra Shah (26 May 1921 – 5 January 2007) was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in the North India, northern part of India. It is often referred to as t ...

and was a member of the

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before joining the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and later the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

(BJP) political party. He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was

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Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

from 1980 to 1983. His daughter-in law

Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah (born 23 August 1950) is a political and social worker, Member of Parliament elected from the Tehri Garhwal constituency in the Indian state of Uttarakhand being a Bhartiya Janata Party Leader and titular queen of erstwhil ...

was elected to Lok Sabha from the same seat in 2012. Shah was also the last ruling

of the

Garhwal Kingdom Garhwal Kingdom was an independent Himalayan kingdom in the current north-western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, founded in 688 CE by Kanak Pal, the progenitor of the Panwar dynasty that ruled over the kingdom uninterrupted until ...

(1946–1949), when Tehri Garhwal princely state acceded to independent India on 1 August 1949. Maharaja Manabendra Shah studied at Government College, Lahore and ICS Camp, Dehradun (Uttaranchal).

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

at '' Queensland University''. 1921 births 2005 deaths Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand India MPs 2004–2009 People from New Tehri India MPs 1957–1962 Ambassadors of India to Ireland Lok Sabha members from Uttarakhand India MPs 1962–1967 India MPs 1967–1970 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh {{Uttarakhand-BJP-politician-stub