Lal Kalindra Singh

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Lal Kalindra Singh ( Hindi लाल कलिन्द्र सिंह IAST Lāl Kalindra Siṃh , * 1863 in Jagdalpur ; † in the prison of Elichpur ) was a member of the ruling family of the Indian princely state of Bastar . After his dismissal as Diwan , he was the instigator of the Bhumkal uprising of 1910.

Life

Lal Kalindra Singh was the son of Mahipal Deo , the 17th generation Raja of Bastar. His leprous stepbrother Bhairam Deo (ruled 1853 to 1891) had a son Rudra Pratap Deo (ruled 1891 to 1922), whose accession to the throne took place in 1908 when he was of legal age.

With his wife Rukmini Bai († November 27, 1928) he had a daughter Suryakumari, who later married the ruler of Puwayan State .

The office of Diwan von Bastar was usually exercised by a member of the ruling family. When the Rajas was a minor, the state was under the Court of Wards , de facto under direct British rule. Kalindra Singh was dismissed from office shortly after his nephew's accession to the throne on charges that he had had one of his friends killed. The cause was probably an intrigue by Jugraj Kaur, one of the three wives of the Raja.

Kalindra Singh then allied with the Rani Subran Kaur, the late Raja's second wife and Kunwar Bahadur Singh, a cousin on the left hand. On October 22, 1909, he used the annual Dussehra meeting to win influential village chiefs ( majhi ) to his side. For the next few months he worked in the background for an uprising by the tribals in the state, who were already dissatisfied with the influences of the colonial economic system and some of the measures taken by his corrupt successor, Panda Baijnat.

During the famine in 1900 he, like the two Ranis, exempted his subjects as an example and donated 2 Rs. Per “plow” to buy grain.

The February 1910 uprising known as Bhumkal was put down by the colonial rulers with their superior weapons. Lal Kalindra Singh was arrested on February 26th. He was detained without trial in Raipur Prison, where he received Rs. 11 ′ a month for support. He was later taken to the Elichpur prison (today: Achalpur, Maharashtra ), where he died.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nandini Sundar: Subalterns and Sovereigns . 2nd Edition. New Delhi / Oxford 2007, ISBN 0-19-569704-9 , p. 125.
personal data
SURNAME Lal Kalindra Singh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lal Kalendra Singh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bastar divan; Member of the ruling family of Bastar
DATE OF BIRTH 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Jagdalpur
DATE OF DEATH 20th century
Place of death Elichpur prison