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Jai Singh Prabhakar

1882–1937 · 20th century · Also known as Jai Singh of Alwar

Jai Singh Prabhakar was Maharaja of Alwar in Rajputana from 1892. Gifted and well educated, he became notorious for erratic and cruel rule. After a Meo peasant uprising and misgovernment the British forced him to leave the state in 1933, and he died in exile in Paris in 1937.

Jai Singh Prabhakar
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Alwar State

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