Maharaja Sir Harendra Kishore Singh was the last ruler of Bettiah Raj. He was born in 1854 and succeeded his father, the Rajendra Kishore Singh Bahadur in 1883 . He died childless on 26th March, 1893.[1] In 1884 received the title of Maharaja Bahadur as a personal distinction and a Khilat and a sanad from the hands of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, Augustus Rivers Thompson. He was created a Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire on 1 March 1889.[2] He was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Bengal in January 1891.[2] He was also a member of The Asiatic Society[3]
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- ^ "Supreme Court of India Judgement 1980 PETITIONER: SHYAM SUNDER PRASAD SINGH & ORS. Vs. RESPONDENT: STATE OF BIHAR & ORS" (PDF). SUPREME COURT OF INDIA. 22 July 1980. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ a b Lethbridge, Roper (1893). The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire. Robarts - University of Toronto. London Macmillan. p. 67.
- ^ Asiatic Society of Bengal (1865). Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. American Museum of Natural History Library. Calcutta : [The Society].