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Rajendra Singh of Jaintia
Rajendra Singh was the last raja of the Jaintia kingdom in north-east India. After subjects of the British were seized in his territory and allegedly sacrificed, the East India Company annexed his lands in the Sylhet plains and then the Jaintia Hills in 1835, deposing him. The kingdom's territory was then administered as part of British Assam and Bengal.
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