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TAKHTSINGJI (1858-1896)

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TAKHTSINGJI (1858-1896) , Maharaja of See also:Bhaunagar, a See also:Rajput See also:chief of the Gohel See also:clan, and the ruler of a See also:state in See also:Kathiawar, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:January 1858, and succeeded to the See also:throne of Bhaunagar on the See also:death of his See also:father, Jaswantsingji, in 1870. During his minority, which ended in 1878, he was educated at the See also:Rajkot See also:college and afterwards under an See also:English officer, while the See also:administration of the state was See also:con-ducted jointly by Mr. E. H. See also:Percival, a member of the See also:Indian See also:Civil Service, and Azam Gowrishankar Yodeyshankar, C.S.I., one of the foremost native statesmen of See also:India, who had served the state in various capacities since 1822. At the See also:age of twenty Takhtsingji found himself the ruler of a territory nearly 3000 square See also:miles in extent. His first public See also:act was to See also:sanction a railway connecting his territory with one of the See also:main See also:trunk lines, which was the first enterprise of its See also:kind on the See also:part of a See also:raja in western, if not in all, India. The See also:commerce and See also:trade, and the economic and even social development of the state, which came in the See also:wake of this railway, confirmed Takhtsingji in a policy of progressive administration, under which educational establishments, hospitals and dispensaries, trunk roads, See also:bridges, handsome edifices and other public See also:works See also:grew apace. In 1886 he inaugurated a See also:system of constitutional See also:rule, by placing several departments in the hands of four members of a See also:council of state under his own See also:presidency. This innovation, which had the warm support of the See also:governor of Bombay, See also:Lord Keay, provoked a virulent attack upon the chief, who brought his defamers to trial in the High See also:Court of Bombay. The See also:punishment of the ringleaders See also:broke up a system of blackmailing to which rajas used to be regularly exposed, and the public spirit of Takhtsingji in freeing his See also:brother chiefs from this evil was widely acknowledged throughout India, as well as by the See also:British authorities. In 1886 he was created G.C.S.I.; and five years later his hereditary See also:title of thakore was raised to that of maharaja.

In 1893 he took the occasion of the opening of the Imperial See also:

Institute by See also:Queen See also:Victoria to visit See also:England in See also:order to pay See also:personal See also:homage to the See also:sovereign of the British See also:Empire, on which occasion the University of See also:Cambridge conferred on him the degree of LL.D. He died in 1896.

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