Maharaja Ganga Singh
Twenty-first ruler of Bikaner (r. 1888–1943); moderniser of the desert kingdom, sole Indian signatory of the Treaty of Versailles, and architect of the Gang Canal.
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Era
1857 – 1947
Twenty-first ruler of Bikaner (r. 1888–1943); moderniser of the desert kingdom, sole Indian signatory of the Treaty of Versailles, and architect of the Gang Canal.
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Last Maharaja of Bikaner (until 1971 constitutional abolition); Member of Parliament (1952–1977) and five-time Olympic shooter for India.
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Last reigning Maharaja of Bikaner (r. 1943–1949); first Indian prince to sign the Instrument of Accession to India on 7 August 1947.
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Maharaja Ganga Singh leads the Bikaner Camel Corps (Ganga Risala) during the Boxer Rebellion in China (1900), gaining his first international military recognition.
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Maharaja Ganga Singh commands the Bikaner Camel Corps in France and Flanders (1914–1915); serves on the Imperial War Cabinet; sole Indian signatory of the Treaty of Versailles (1919).
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On 30 March 1949, Bikaner State is formally merged into the United State of Greater Rajasthan, ending 461 years of Rathore rule in the Thar Desert.
Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner signs the Treaty of Versailles at the Palace of Versailles on 28 June 1919 — the sole Indian signatory to the treaty that ended World War I.
The catastrophic famine of 1899–1900 devastated Bikaner State; Maharaja Ganga Singh's relief operations became a model for princely state humanitarian response.
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Maharaja Ganga Singh inaugurates the Gang Canal in 1927 — drawing water from the Sutlej river to irrigate 800,000 acres of Thar Desert and creating Sri Ganganagar.
Maharaja Sadul Singh signs the Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India on 7 August 1947 — the first Indian prince to formally accede to independent India.
All published entities tagged with era = "Modern" (1857 – 1947).