Background
DURBHUNGA, Maharaja of was born on January 16, 1860. Son of Maharaja Mahaswar Singh Bahadur.
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Maharaja of DURBHUNGA
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Durbhunga, Moznfferpore and Benares.
Career
Appointed Assistant Magistrate (Indian Statutory Civil Service), 1877. Resigned, 1886, to manage his own extensive estates. Received title, Raja Bahadur, 29 May 1886.
Was exempted from attendance in Civil Courts, under Government Notification, 14 May 1888.
1888-1890, seat in Bengal Legislative Council as representative of Landowners of Bengal and Behar. Succeeded to The Guddee of Raj Durbhunga on decease of his brother, 1898.
Received title Maharaja Bahadur, 1898. Member Imperial Legislative Council five times, and sixtimes Presidentof British IndianAssociation.
President Bengal Landholders’ Association, and Life President Bharata Dliarma Mahamandal, by which he was elected to be the chief of the orthodox Hindus of India.
Made hereditary Maharaja Bahadur, 1907. Has restored and constructed temples destroyed by the earthquake of 1902 in Kamakhya, Assam, Sylhut, and other places. Has constructed the Rajnagar Palace at a cost of £160,000.
lieutenant is the finest example of oriental architecture in Bengal since the Mogul period.
Possesses one of the best libraries in India. Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal, 1900.
A Member of Indian Police Commission, and of Indian Famine Trust. President of the Prince of Wales’ Reception Committee for Bengal, 1905.
Presidentof the AllIndia Convention of Religions, Calcutta, 1909.
President of Lahore Industrial Conference, 1909. Sir Rameswara Singh Bahadur.
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Heir: Maharaja Kumar Kameshwara Singh.
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British