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Bikaner–East India Company Subsidiary Alliance
Maharaja Surat Singh signs the subsidiary alliance with the East India Company on 9 March 1818, making Bikaner a British protectorate.
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Battles, treaties, edicts, declarations — moments that turned the long arc.
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Maharaja Surat Singh signs the subsidiary alliance with the East India Company on 9 March 1818, making Bikaner a British protectorate.
The 1857 uprising against British rule, after which Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled and the Mughal Empire formally dissolved.
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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 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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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.
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.
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.