Jodhpur is celebrating 70th Janmtithi (Birth tithi) of His Highness Maharaja GajSingh Ji today 20th Dec 2018 as per Vedic calendar. GajSingh Ji born on January 13, 1948, which is Pausha Shukla Paksha Dvitiya as per Hindu (Vedic) Calendar.
HH GajSingh ji is a former member of the Indian parliament and a former High Commissioner of India. He was the Maharaja of Jodhpur from 1952 until the royal powers, privileges and privy purses were abolished by an amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.
The royal family of Jodhpur recreates a darbar with pomp and pageantry to continue the centuries-old tradition of celebrating the maharaja’s birthday. The main celebration is organized at Umed Bhawan Palace. Lots of celebrities, another estate royal members, dignities have attending and Wishes on his Janmtithi. Some of them are MLA from Jammu Kashmir AjaatShatru, Gwalior Royal family member Priyadarshini Scindiya, M.P. Dushyant Singh, Jaipur Royal family member Padmini Devi among others.
As per rituals, he prays to Chamunda Mata temple in morning at Mehrangarh Fort -Jodhpur, the temple of Chamunda Devi, Isht Devi of the royal family. And then offers Pushpanjali at Jaswant Thada, a cenotaph for the royal family of Marwar located in Jodhpur
Early years and accession of HH GajSingh Ji
Gaj Singh is the son of Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur by his first wife, Maharani Krishna Kumari of Dhrangadhra. He succeeded to the titles and dignities of his father when only four years of age, in 1952, when his father died suddenly in a plane crash. He has enthroned shortly afterward. In 2002, Gaj Singh celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his accession.
The infant and his siblings were raised by their mother, Rajmata Krishna Kumari. At the age of eight, Gaj Singh was sent first to Cothill House, a prep school in Oxfordshire, England, and then to Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Singh’s full title as Maharaja was His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Saramad-i-Raja-i-Hind Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Shri Gaj Singhji II Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Marwar.
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Family
In 1970, Gaj Singh returned to Jodhpur to take up his duties as Maharaja of Jodhpur and head of the Rathore clan. In 1973, he married Hemalata Rajye, daughter of the Raja of Poonch, a major feudatory state of Kashmir State and his wife Princess Nalini Rajye Lakshmi Devi of Nepal. They are the parents of two children, being:
- A daughter, Shivranjani Rajye (born 22 August 1974), and
- A son, Shivraj Singh (born 30 September 1975).
Derecognition
In 1971, the constitution of India was amended. The Maharaja and other princes were deprived of their privy purses, the government annuities that had been guaranteed to them both in the constitution and in the covenants of accession whereby their states were merged with the Dominion of India in the 1940s. The same amendment also deprived them of other privileges, such as diplomatic immunity to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).
Career
Later, Gaj Singh served as Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. He also served a term in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament.
