Colonel the Honourable Kanwar Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (1871-5 December 1911) was a Punjabi

Punjabi people

The Punjabi people , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ), also Panjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan group from South Asia. They are the second largest of the many ethnic groups in South Asia. They originate in the Punjab region, which has been been the location of some of the oldest civilizations in the world including, the...

 politician and scholar.

Biography

The son of Kanwar Bikrama Singh

Bikrama Singh

Kanwar Sri Bikrama Singh Bahadur was a 19th-century Sikh leader.-Early life and Political Contribution:Born in Kapurthala as the second son of Raja Nihal Singh of Kapurthala , he was one of the main progenitors of the 19th Century Sikh Renaissance, being one of the founders of the Singh Sabha...

 of Kapurthala

Kapurthala

Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The secular and aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent buildings based on French and Indo-Saracenic...

, Pratap Singh was an honorary magistrate and civil judge in Punjab

Punjab (British India)

Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between West Punjab, which went to Pakistan, and East Punjab, which went to India...

. He served as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council from 1906 to 1911 and the Imperial Legislative Council 1910 – 1911. He was a founder of the Punjab Chiefs' Association.

Actively involved in the Sikh renaissance movement, Pratap Singh was a scholar of history and religion and was an eminent musicologist of his time.

Awards

• 1909: Commander of the Order of the Star of India
  Order of the Star of India
  The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861. The Order includes members of three classes:# Knight Grand Commander # Knight Commander # Companion...
  
  
• 1911 (posthumous): Knight Commander of Order of the Star of India

External links

• http://www.royalark.net/India/kapurth.htm at www.royalark.net
• KAPURTHALA at www.uq.net.au
• Sikh heritage at www.sikh-heritage.co.uk

See also

• Ahluwalia
• Harnam Singh
• The Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families
  The Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families
  The Royal Family of Kapurthala State is unique for having a number of significant collateral branches. All of these branches emerged as separate powerful entities in their own right due to different historical circumstances....
  
  
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
  Dame Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ was the health minister in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after India's independence from the British Raj in 1947. She was an eminent Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social activist....
  
  
• Billy Arjan Singh
  Billy Arjan Singh
  Kunwar "Billy" Arjan Singh was an Indian hunter turned conservationist and author. He was the first who tried to reintroduce tigers and leopards from captivity into the wild....
  
  
• Bikrama Singh
  Bikrama Singh
  Kanwar Sri Bikrama Singh Bahadur was a 19th-century Sikh leader.-Early life and Political Contribution:Born in Kapurthala as the second son of Raja Nihal Singh of Kapurthala , he was one of the main progenitors of the 19th Century Sikh Renaissance, being one of the founders of the Singh Sabha...
  
  
• Vishvjit Singh
  Vishvjit Singh
  Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh is an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress party. He is a great grandson of Col the Honourable Kanwar Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala.-Biography:...