Biographical history of Hone'rable Raja Kushal Pal Singh Bahadur of Kotla Jadon estate in Firozabad district

Biographical History of Hon'rable Raja Bahadur  Kushal Pal Singh  of Kotla Jadon Estate in Firozabad District --

Born: December 15, 1872. Succeeded: Near about 1965.

Heir: Kanwar Gajendra Pal Singh.

Residence: Kotla,formly  in tahsil  Firozabad in Agra district.Now Kotla is a village in Firozabad district.

Kotla Estate in English Period  --

Area and Revenue----

Sixty-one mahals paying Rs. 53,311 as land revenue in the Agra the district, 16 mahals paying Rs. 20,052 as land revenue in the Mainpuri district, and 4 mahals paying Rs. 6,972 in the Etah district.

Title :---

The personal title of Raja was conferred by notification no. 1265-I .B., dated June 14, 1912. It was made hereditary by notification no. 17-D., dated January 1, 1917. The personal title of Raja Bahadur was also conferred by notification no. 7-H., dated January 2, 1928.

Raja Kushal Pal  Singh  of Kotla---

Raja Kushal Pal Singh , The Hon'ble Rajah of a noble family occupying a very eminent position among the nobility of United Provinces of Agra and Qudh.

He was the head of the Jadon Rajputs of the province of Agra. He is descended from Raja Bijai Pal of the Karauli family. 

Mediaeval History of Kotla Estate ---

The fifteenth in direct descent from Raja Bijai Pal  of Bayana was Raja Tulsi Das, who was appointed a commander of 300 by Akbar and is mentioned in the Akbarnamah and the Ain-i-Akbari. Raja Hari Kishan Das, the sixth in descent from Raja Tulsi Das, received from the Emperor Aurangzeb the title of Bahadur and acquired the villages of Phariha and Kotla as well as a large tract of the neighbouring country. Most of his acquisitions were lost in 1784, when Hari Kishan Das's son was killed in an unsuccessful attempt to resist the advance of the rising power of Maharaja Sindhia of Gwalior. The whole estate was included in the jagir granted to De Boigne by Sindhia. On De Boigne's departure for Europe in 1796, Raja Ishwari Singh recovered forty-two villages and an istimrari sanad was granted to him by General Perron. When Lord Lake took possession of the doab, Raja Ishri Singh, the then representative of the family, transferred his services to Lord Lake. In 1804 Holkar laid siege to Delhi, and on the approach of Lord Lake he crossed the Junna and determined to ravage the doab. Lord Lake set out in pursuit and it was then that Raja Ishri Singh and his son Sumer Singh supplied Lord Lake with provisions and rendered him other material assistance. It was acknowledged by the General in command and by the Political Agent that the promptitude with which the Kotla Raj supplied provisions to the division of the army which surprised and cut up Holkar's force near Fatehgarh largely contributed to the success

of that brilliant enterprise. Lord Lake confirmed in perpetuity Raja Ishri Singh in his possessions as a loyal adherent to the East India Company. The Raja, however, failed to pay revenue, and the villages were in 1810 included in the istimrari sanad granted to Hira Singh of Awagarh. On the latter's death in 1831 , the property was once more restored to the former proprietors and permanently settled with Ishri Singh's son, Sumer Singh. Raja Ishri Singh's grandson, Raja Chaturbhuj Singh who died on 4 November 1844.He was succeeded by  his widow Mt.Mahtab Kanwar  to the estate and remained in possession till her death in 1889. During the Mutiny of 1857 this lady behaved with eminent loyalty. Her influence was exerted to keep order in her estate and to support the British Government. On several occasions she sent her armed followers to assist the British officers, and spared neither expense not trouble in proving her zeal and loyalty. Her people gave great assistance to Mr. H. M. Chase, Joint Magistrate, Mainpuri, in restoring order in the district of Mainpuri. Remittances from the Firozabad tahsil were regularly escorted into Agra by her people and her armed men protected the tahsil. The Government showed its appreciation of her services by granting to her estates, assessed at Rs. 3,000, a Khilat of Rs. 2,000, a letter of thanks and Rs. 22,817 as compensation for the great expense incurred by her in helping the Government. Her daughter, Rani Jas Kunwar, had no child, and she transferred the estate to Raja Kushalpal Singh in May, 1905, the Raja being descended from Raja Har Kishan Das in the eldest male line. A niece of his father, Thakur Umrao Singh's relative sister Bitta ji of Umargarh Jadon estate was married to the late Maharaja Sawai Madhosingh II of Jaipur State, and Thakur Umrao Singh was a prominent member of the Jaipur State Council for a long time and was the founder of the Rajput Mahasabha and the Rajput educational institutions in Agra. Raja Kushalpal Singh was also the maternal uncle of His Highness Maharaja Man Singh II of Jaipur State before his adoption. 

Family Of Raja Kushalpal Singh----

Raja Kushal Pal Singh was married with Rani Gopal Kumari of Pahargarh Thikana of Sikarwar Rajputs in Murena district of Madhya Pradesh. on Feb.19 ,1893.He had three daughters , 1-Smt.Charulata and 2-Smt.Kasama Devi both married to Leftinent Cornal Raja Bhawani Singh Gaud Rajput of Shyopur Badauda  estate in Madhaya Pradesh ,both daughters had no issue and third daughter Sushila Devi married with Raja Someshwar Singh of Nai Garhi thikana of Sengar rajputs in Reewa state.

His son, Kunwar Gajendrapal Singh , borned 1909 , has married at Agartala 25th November 1925 with   Basanta Prabha Devi( born 1909 , death 1929),daughter  of His Highness Maharaja Birendra Kishor  Dev Varman  Manikya of Taipura State and after some years divorced .  Rajkumar Gajendra Pal Singh was secondly married  in 1936 with Baisa Chain Kanwar (born 1918 ) , daughter of Thakur Nahar Singh of Kuchaman Thikana in Jodhpur.She was widowed in September of the same year (1936).

Educational Qualification--

 Raja Kushal pal Singh is a  remarkably well educated man.He received his education at the Agra college where he had the good fortune of being placed under very capable and experienced teachers . He passed  the B.A. degree examination of the   Allahabad University in 1892 , and the   M. A.  Examination of the Calcutta University in 1893.He obtained the LLB degree from Allahabad university in 1897.While at college he acquired an extensive acquaintance with the English literature and English and  Indian History. He did not seriously take to the profession of Law for which he had qualified himself but belonging to the leisured classes , as he did , he thought it more becoming to devote his energies to public duties.He attended the Coronation Darbar at Delhi as a member of the Provincial Legislative Council and was awarded the title of "Raja " on the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of the King -Emperor in 1912. He was a member of the United Provinces Legislative Council for eleven years from 1910 to 1920, and of the Imperial Legislative Council for three years and a half from 1913 to 1916, and of the Legislative Assembly from 1921 to 1923. He was a member of the United Provinces Legislative Council. He was Chairman of the Firozabad Municipal Board for twelve years and a half from 1913 to 1925. He was also a trustee and a member of the Managing Committee of Agra College which has now been long under non -official management with excellent results and a member of the Governing Body of the Cawnpore Agricultural College .

cellent results. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Agra District Board and as his numerous questions and speeches in the Council show, he has thoroughly mastered the details of the work enstrusted to the District Board in the province of Agra and the Financial and other questions connected therewith. As an Honorary Magistrate, he has taken an active share in the administration  of the Criminal law in the district where he lives. But his chief activities lie in the improvement of agriculture and the condition of those engaged in it. He has established two village banks, several model farms and was Honorary Secretary of the Agricultural Associations of Manpuri and the Agra Districts. Two of the farms which he established are devoted, mainly, to the production of wheat and cotton, a third is intended chiefly to show commercial results , a fourth for the trial of new crops and a fifth in Agra district for experimental purposes. The Raja has some excelent ideas on the subject of giving an agricultural education to village boys which he has given expression to in the speeches that he made in the Council from time to time. He thinks,and rightly too, that a purely literary education is lost on boys who , in their maturer years, would be engaged in agricjltural pursuits and he thinks that nature study and the intelligent appreciation of village surroundings and knowledge  everything about them were a much better education for these boys than that which is not actually imparted in the village schools. The Raja has recently started an Agricultural school  on these lines and the head of the Agricultural department in the United Provinces rightly remarks that his department is keenly interested in the venture. 

Raja Kushal Pal Singh Bahadur of Kotla was Education and Industrial minister in the Government of Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant of Provincial govt in United Provinces.He was member of the court of Delhi University three years , Members of Senate Agra University since 1927.

Note*--

Thakur Jaikishan Das, Ballu Ram and  Bholuram the decendents of Raja Harikishan Das in the 3rd male line came to Karauli, on request from Kotla to help Madan Pal in 1852. when Maharaja Narsingh Pal died without any heir, so the question arose whether the Karauli  state was to be considered to have lapsed to the British Government, there being an heir to the Gaddi or it should be given to either of the rival claimants Bharat Pal and Madan Pal who were not direct heirs to the deceased prince The three brothers showed their loyality to blood and after great rush back succeeded in debated this question in the council of the Governor General of India where it was finally decided to appoint maharaja Madan Pal as ruler of Karauli state .

References----

1-Akbarnama.

2-Ain-i-Akbari

3-Full text of "second Supplement to Who'sWho in India (microform)brought up to 1914 .

4-Who'who in India up to 1926;1937.

5-District Gazetter of the United Provinces of Agra &Qudh Vol,.12 ,1911 edition.

6-District Gazetter of Mainpuri  .

7-world Biography ,Voll.2,3page 4393.1948.

8-Selected works of Pt.Govind Ballabh Pant .page 162.

8-Chauhan vansh ka Samajik and Rajnaitik Itihas by Ratan Lal Vansal of Firozabad .

9-*Mannual of Titles United Provinces of Agra &Qudh , corrected up to Janaury 1929 published by authority

10-Mannuals of Titles United Provinces of Agra & Qudh .1931.

  11-Biographial Encyclopedia of the world.voll.2.,pp4393, 1948.

12-Afforestration in the United Privinces ,India ,pp32.1922.

12-Chronicle of the British Indian Association 185,1952.,p.455.

13-Indian and Pakistan year book and Whos Who ,p.1031.1939.

14-Indian year book p.1059.,1940.

15-India ,Village.47,p47.

Author -Dr.Dhirendra Singh Jadaun , Village Larhota , Near Sasni ,Distt.Hathras .U P.

Principal , Government Girls College Sawaimadhopur , Rajasthan