Colonel The Honourable Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (1871-5 December 1911) was a
Punjabi
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* Punjabi language
* Punjabis, Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
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politician and scholar.
Biography
The son of
Bikrama Singh of
Kapurthala
Kapurthala () is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent b ...
, Pratap Singh was an honorary magistrate and civil judge in
Punjab
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
. He served as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council from 1906 to 1911 and the
Imperial Legislative Council
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1910–1911. He was a founder of the Punjab Chiefs' Association.
Actively involved in the Sikh renaissance movement, Pratap Singh was a scholar of history and religion and was an eminent
musicologist
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of his time.
Awards
*1909: Commander of the
Order of the Star of India
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# Knight Grand Commander ( GCSI)
# Knight Commander ( KCSI)
# Companion ( CSI)
No appointments ...
*1911 (posthumous): Knight Commander of Order of the Star of India
See also
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Ahluwalia (misl)
Ahluwalia (also transliterated as Ahluvalia) was a misl, that is, a sovereign state in the Sikh Confederacy of Punjab region in present-day India and Pakistan. The misl's name is derived from Ahlu, the ancestral village of the misl leaders. The A ...
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Harnam Singh
Raja Sir Harnam Singh Ahluwalia , KCIE (15 November 1851 – 20 May 1930) was a member of the Kapurthala royal family in the direct line founded by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.
He was the first president of the All India Conference of Indian Chris ...
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The Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families
Kapurthala State, was a kingdom and later princely state of the Punjab Province of British India. Ruled by Ahluwalia Sikh rulers, spread across . According to the 1901 census the state had a population of 314,341 and contained two towns and 16 ...
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
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Billy Arjan Singh
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Bikrama Singh
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Vishvjit Singh
Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (29 October 1946 - 6 August 2017) was an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress party. He is a great-grandson of Pratap Singh of Kapurthala.
Biography
Singh was born on 29 October 1946 at Kapurthala House, ...
References
Sources
*Sir Lepel Grifin – Rajas of the Punjab. 1873
*Griffin & Massey – Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab 1909
*Challenge and response (1849–1873) by Harbans Singh published in the Sikh Spectrum.com Monthly Issue No.11, April 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012010324/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/042003/challenges.htm
External links
Sikh heritage
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1871 births
1911 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
People from Kapurthala
Punjabi Sikhs
Members of the Imperial Legislative Council of India