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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Man | | | First Name(s) | Singh | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Maharaja Sir Bahadur Kaim Jang | | | Birth Year | 1820 | | | Death Year | 1870 | | | Entry | Youngest son of Raja Darshan Bahadur Singh Bahadur of Mahdauna, Faizabad, of a notable family of Sakaldipi Brahmans. Darshan Singh (died 1844), was brother of Raja Bakhtawar Singh, who accompanied Sleeman and was the King's Quartermaster- General and premier Raja in Oudh. In 1845 Man Singh was appointed Nizam of Daryabad, Rudauli and Sultanpur : made Raja Bahadur and acquired a vast estate : in 1855 became heir to his uncle, Bakhtawar Singh. At the annexation of Oudh, he was deprived of much of his property and soon after imprisoned at Faizabad as a revenue defaulter. When the mutiny broke out he was released by Col. Goldney, the Commissioner, and agreed to protect the European women and children : received 29 fugitives into his fort at Shahganj and escorted them in safety to Gorakhpur : in August, 1857, he went to Lucknow with a large contingent and a battery : but the rebels knew of his constant communication with the British, and after the fall of the capital besieged him at Shahganj, where he was relieved by Sir Hope Grant. He then rendered great assistance to the British and assisted in the restoration of order in Faizabad and elsewhere. In reward he regained all his old estates and those of the rebel Raja of Gonda, besides the remission of all outstanding balances : the foremost man among the Oudh talukdars, he acted as their mouthpiece in all the great controversies with regard to rights in land : Hony. Magistrate in 1860 : K.C.S.I., 1869 : died Oct. 11, 1870 : his daughter's son is the present Maharaja of Ajodhya. |
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