FAMOUS INDIAN’S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 18120, 9 November 1922, Page 9

FAMOUS INDIAN’S DEATH

SIR PARTAB SINGH. WARRIOR AND STATESMAN. The death occurred recently, from heart failure, of Major-general H.U. the Maharaja Sir Pariah Sincch Bahadur, G.C.8., G.C.S.J., G.C.V.0., Hon. A.D.C. to the King-Enineror, and Regent 0f,., Jodhpur. This 5 veteran ■ v/arnor-statewnn so strikingly exemplified the ■ ideals of Rajput chivalry, valor, and fidelity that for more than a generation past ho lias occupied a unique place among Indians in the affections"of the British Empire. Born on October 21, 1845. he was tho second sun of Maharaja Tahiti 'Singh of Jodhpur lor Marwar), the head of the great Jlathor clan oi Rajputs. k rnm early youth ho was distinguished for horsemanship and manly sport of every land, and these acquirements were of high value when h’o became Itev.an to ins elder brother, tho late Maharaja, Sir Jo-want Singh, in 1878. The State was in a very hackwani condition, scarcity was chrome and crime was rampant (says the London * Junes j. fhe difficulties before the. Rowan would have overwhelmed any Minister, however acute his intelligence,' who had not been endowed with great personal courage, for ho had to deal with tribes nursed on warlike traditions in ar> unsettled desert conntty. Sir Pariah worked a complete transformation, suppressing crime and developing internal communications. 11 hat his groat physical courage had its moral counterpart was shown when ho faced tho odium of being the first Minister who hanged a Brahman in Marwar in the interest of law and order.