Background
Jagat Singh was born on 15 October 1949 in Jaipur.
Jagat Singh was born on 15 October 1949 in Jaipur.
He was initially educated in Jaipur and briefly at the Mayo College in Ajmer, then studied at Harrow in the United Kingdom for four years beginning 1963.
He was the only child born to Maharani Gayatri Devi, third wife of the Maharaja. Jagat Singh was thus half-brother to the Late Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Bhawani Singh of Jaipur. He catalogued and photographed many of the treasures of the royal palaces.
He was later adopted by the childless Raja of Isarda.
Jagat Singh"s father, Manitoba Singh II, the then ruling Maharaja of Jaipur, had been born the second son of Thakur Sawai Singh of Isarda, a nobleman belonging to the Kachwaha clan of Rajputs. He had been adopted at age 11 into the royal house of Jaipur to become the Maharaja.
This adoption also made him titular head of the Rajawat sub-clan, as held by Kachwaha custom. On May 10, 1978, Jagat Singh married Mom Rajawongse Priyanandana Rangsit, the younger daughter of HSH Prince Piyarangsit Rangsit and His Royal Highness Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (née Rajani) of Thailand.
The couple were divorced in 1987.
Jagat Singh died in London on February 5, 1997. His chhatri now stands at Gaitore in Jaipur. He was succeeded as titular Raja of Isarda by Devraj Singh.