Background
He succeeded his father as Maharaja of Jodhpur on 9 June 1947, he held the title till his death in a plane crash on 26 January 1952.
He succeeded his father as Maharaja of Jodhpur on 9 June 1947, he held the title till his death in a plane crash on 26 January 1952.
The plane crashed killing him at the age of 28. Zubeidaa also perished in the mishap. In 2011, wreckage of the aircraft, Beechcraft Bonanza, a light six-seater aircraft, was discovered inside Jodhpur Central Jail.
Subsequently, in 2012, the Mehrangarh Fort Museum founded in 1972 by Maharaja Gaj Singh, formally asked the jail to transfer the wreckage to the museum.
After Indian independence and formation of Rajasthan as a state within India, he formed a new political party in 1952, was to campaigning both the Indian general election, 1952 in February 1952 and state Assembly elections, would have won a majority in his region.