Kameshwar Singh

Not to be confused with Kameshwar Prasad Singh.
Maharajah Kameshwar singh in Western Attire with a Mithila Safa on head

Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh Bahadur
Maharaja of Darbhanga
Reign1929 - 1952
PredecessorMaharaja Rameshwar Singh
Born28 November 1907
Darbhanga, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died1 October 1962 (aged 54)
Darbhanga, Bihar, India
SpouseMaharani Adhirani Kameshwari Priya Sahiba of Mangrauni
HouseRaj Darbhanga
FatherMaharaja Rameshwar Singh

Maharajadhiraj Sir Kameshwar Singh Goutam Bahadur, K.C.I.E. (28 November 1907 – 1 October 1962) was the Maharaja of Darbhanga. He held his title over his family estates in the Mithila region from 1929 – 1952, when such titles were abolished following the Independence of India. He had a sister named Lakshmi Daiji.

Patronage of sports

He was patron of the All India Football Federation which was founded at Darbhanga in 1935. He had started the Darbhanga Cup tournament at Calcutta (Kolkata) in which teams from Lahore, Peshawar, Madras (Chennai), Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai (Bombay), Afghanistan and England participated. He built 4 stadiums.

Biography

He was the son of Maharaja Sir Rameshwar Singh Goutam, the King of Darbhanga Raj. He was born on 28 November 1907 at Darbhanga in a Maithil Brahmin family. He succeeded, to the throne of his estate of Darbhanga Raj, upon death of his father on 3 July 1929.[1]

He was a member of the team that visited London for the First round Table and the Second Round Table Conference held in 1930–31.[2][3]

He was a member of the Council of State for years 1933–1946, member of the Constituent Assembly of India for years 1947–1952.[4] He was elevated from C.I.E. and made a Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire on 1 January 1933.[4][5]

After, the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, he started construction of a fort called Raj Quila, to commemorate the memory, when the British Raj announced to confer the title of "Native Prince" to Maharaja Kameshwar Singh. The contract was given to a Calcutta-based firm and work was on in full swing in 1939–40. Three sides of the fort were constructed with all the protective measures till work was stayed because of litigation and a stay order from the high court. With the abolition of native royalties by the Indian government post-Independence, work on the fort was eventually abandoned.[6]

After independence of India, he was elected as Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 1952–1958 as a Jharkhand Party candidate[7] and got re-elected again in 1960 and was a member of Rajya Sabha till his death in 1962.[citation needed]

He also was the President the Maithil Mahasabha from 1929–1962.[8] [9] and also President of the Sri Bharat Dharma Mahamandal.[10][11]

He was lifetime president of Bihar Landholders' Association and also served as the President of the All-India Landholders' Association and Bengal Landholders' Association. Further, he was elected as the president of the Bihar United Party of pre-independence era.[10][11] and guided its policy during the critical years of Agrarian disquiet in Bihar.[12]

Philanthropist

He was the first person in India to get a bust of Mahatma Gandhi made, by celebrated artist Clare Sheridan, cousin of Winston Churchill. The bust was presented to the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, to be displayed in Government House (now Rashtrapati Bhawan). This was acknowledged by Mahatma Gandhi in a letter to Lord Linlithgow in 1940.[13]

He served a pro-vice-chancellor of Benaras Hindu University, to which his father Sir Rameshwar Singh was a major benefactor.[14] He chaired the special meeting in 1939, when Madan Mohan Malviyaji voluntarily stepped down as Chancellor of BHU and Radhakrishnan was unanimously elected to the post.[13][14]

In 1930, Sir Kameshwar Singh, donated Rupees One Lakh and twenty-thousand to University of Patna for encouragement of vernacular language.[15]

After, independence of India, in 1951, when the Mithila Snatkottar Shodh Sansthan (the Mithila Post-Graduate Research Institute), located at Kabraghat, was established on the initiative of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, first President of India at that time, Maharaja Kameshwar Singh donated a building along with 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land and a garden of mango and litchi trees located beside the Bagmati river in Darbhanga to this institution.[16] He in a major act of philanthropy, gifted in a ceremony on 30 March 1960, his Anand Bagh Palace to start a Sanskrit University, now named after him as Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University.[17]


Industrialist

Maharaja Kameshwar Singh inherited investments in businesses and industries begun by his father, who was also the co-founder of Bengal National Bank in 1908.[18]

Kameshwar Singh, who inherited some of his father's legacy, further expanded his stake in varied industries. He controlled 14 businesses producing sugar, jute, cotton, coal, railway, iron and steel, aviation, print media, electricity and other products.

Some of the major companies controlled by him were : Darbhanga Aviations (an airlines company owned by him); The Indian Nation and Aryavatra – newspaper,[19] Thacker Spink & Co; a publishing company;[20] Ashok Paper Mills,[20] Sakri Sugar Factory and Pandaul Sugar Factory, Rameshwar Jute Mills, Darbhanga Dairy Farms, Darbhanga Marketing Co, Darbhanga Lahoriasrai Electric Supply Corporation, Walford, an automobile showroom at Calcutta. Further, he held controlling or major stakes, among others, in British India Corporation, which owned several mills in Kanpur & other parts, Octavius Steel (a large conglomerate having varied interests in Steel, Jute and Tea); Villiers & Co (colliery), through his company, Darbhanga Investments.[4][21][22][23][24][25]

Memorials

References

  1. ^ The Feudatory and zemindari India, Volume 9, Issue 1. 1929. p. 90.
  2. ^ Indian Round Table Conference Proceedings. Government of India. 1931.
  3. ^ Indian Round Table Conference (Second Session) Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions. 1932.
  4. ^ a b c Courage and benevolence: correspondence and speeches of India's prime-estate holder Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh (1907–1962) Kameshwar Singh (Maharaja of Darbhanga), Hetukar Jha, Mahārājādhirāja Kāmeśvara Siṃha Kalyāṇī Phāuṇḍeśana by Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh Kalyani Foundation, 2007 – Darbhanga (India : Division)
  5. ^ United Empire, Volume 24, 1933 pp 116
  6. ^ "Neglect blow to royal legacy". The Telegraph, Kolkata. 17 January 2011. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  7. ^ Bera, Gautam Kumar (2008). The Unrest Axle: Ethno-social Movements in Eastern India edited by Gautam Kumar Bera. p. 48. ISBN 9788183241458.
  8. ^ Language, Religion and Politics in North India Paul R. Brass – 2005by – Page 448
  9. ^ Thakur, Baleshwar (2007). City, Society, and Planning: City. p. 469. ISBN 9788180694592.
  10. ^ a b Who's who in Western India 1934– Page 43
  11. ^ a b The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who by Sir Stanley Reed – 1934
  12. ^ The Journal of the Bihar Research Society by Bihar Research Society – 1962– Volume 48 – Page 100
  13. ^ a b Courage and Benevolence: Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh; published by Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar Singh Kalyani Foundation
  14. ^ a b Satchidananda Murty, K.; Vohra, Ashok (1990). Radhakrishnan: His Life and Ideas By K. Satchidananda Murty, Ashok Vohra. p. 92. ISBN 9780791403440.
  15. ^ Sankhdher, B. M. (1999). Encyclopaedia of Education System in India: Lord Curzon to world war I, 1914 edited by B.M. Sankhdher. p. 1xix. ISBN 9788171009473.
  16. ^ "Darbhanga Raj relic languishing Dipak Mishra". The Times of India. 3 August 2002.
  17. ^ Jhā, Govinda (1995). Umesh Mishra By Govinda Jhā. pp. 58–60. ISBN 9788172013943.
  18. ^ Sengupta, Nitish K. (2011). Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib By Nitish K. Sengupta. p. 213. ISBN 9780143416784.
  19. ^ Ninan, Sevanti (2007). Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere By Sevanti Ninan. p. 44. ISBN 9780761935803.
  20. ^ a b Appendices. India. Second Press Commissior Controller of Publications. 1982. pp. 266, 343.
  21. ^ Bihar district gazetteers – Volume 11 – Page 230 Sugar Works, Lohat, which was given start in the year 1915 and its Managing Agents were Octavius Steel Co., Ltd., Calcutta. ... The Darbhanga Sugar Company, Limited has got at present (1962) two sugar factories at Lohat and Sakri.
  22. ^ Documents on Socialist Movements in India – Page 58 O.P. Ralhan – 2002– The Maharaja of Darbhanga holds big interests in the British India Cooperation and Octavious Steel & Co., Villiers & Co., is fully under Indian control
  23. ^ Sugar industry in Darbhanga Division – Page 32 The Darbhanga Sugar Company was set up with the finance provided by Maharajadhiraj Rameshwar Singh, Darbhanga Raj, M/s. Octavius Steel & Co., Calcutta and certain other English firms
  24. ^ Indian Electrical Yearbook – Volumes 7–9 – Page 13 Darbhanga Lahoriasrai Electric Supply Corpn. Ltd., Est. 1938. Area served: Darbhanga.
  25. ^ Studies in the development of capitalism in India by Shiva Chandra Jh. Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. 1963. pp. 160–163.
  26. ^ "DARBHANGA DEVELOPERS: Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh Kalyani Foundation". Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.

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Further reading

  • A great estate and its landlords in colonial India: Darbhanga, 1860–1942 by Stephen Henningham; Oxford University Press, 1990

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