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Colonel The Honourable Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (1871-5 December 1911) was a Punjabi politician and scholar.

Biography

The son of Bikrama Singh of Kapurthala, Pratap Singh was an honorary magistrate and civil judge in Punjab. 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
• 1911 (posthumous): Knight Commander of Order of the Star of India

See also

• Ahluwalia (misl)
• Harnam Singh
• The Kapurthala Royal Collateral Families
• Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
• Billy Arjan Singh
• Bikrama Singh
• Vishvjit Singh

References

Sources

• Sir Lepel Grifin – Rajas of the Punjab. 1873
• Griffin & Massey – Chiefs and Families of Note in the Punjab 1909
• Challenge and response (1849–1873) by Harbans Singh published in the Sikh Spectrum.com Monthly Issue No.11, April 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012010324/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/042003/challenges.htm

External links

• Sikh heritage