Dungar Singh, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dungar Singh

Indian Maharaja

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1854

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1887

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Dungar Singh

  • Sri Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Narendra MaharajaShiromani Sri Dungar Singh Bahadur (22 August 1854 – 19 August 1887) was a Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner from 1872 to 1887.
  • The eldest of three sons of Maharaj Sri Lal Singh (16 December 1831 – 17 September 1887) a relative of a distant branch of the Rathore clan, Dungar Singh was an enlightened and progressive monarch.
  • He aided the British during the Second Afghan War (of Sherlock Holmes fame) in 1878 by supplying 800 camels.
  • Deeply involved in education, he opened the first Bikaner public schools and college during his reign, also organising the first modern police force, an up-to-date budget and fiscal standards, dispensaries, a post office, and a civil surgeon, reforming the jails as well. Dungar Singh died in 1887, only a few days shy of his 33rd birthday, his father following him in death a month later.
  • He was succeeded by his youngest brother, Ganga Singh, whom he had adopted for himself as his son.

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