This is a study of the achievements of the royal house of Bikaner that traces the exploits of twenty-five generations. It is an account that deals with the contribution of the Bikaner royalty to art, music, literature and culture and helped in the growth and development of the region. Beginning with the laying of the foundation of the dynasty by Rao Bika in 1465, it details how successive generations fought wars in faraway lands in India and the world, achieving notable success. It describes the achievements of the outstanding rulers like Maharaja Ganga Singh and his successor Maharaja Sadul Singh in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries especially their contributions to the building of modern Bikaner. It has interesting appendices that present lists showing honours, titles, medals of Maharaja Ganga Singh and Maharaja Sadul Singh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajyashree Kumari Bikaner
Rajyashree Kumari of Bikaner was born in Bombay on June 4, 1953 and spent her childhood between her family homes in Bikaner and New Delhi.She is the daughter of Maharaja Dr. Karni Singhji and Maharani Sushila Kumarji. Maharaja Dr. Karni Singhji taught her to shoot at the age of six years and she won her first medal in 1960 aged seven. During her sporting career spanning 20 years she represented India in the WORLD Shooting Championship at San Sebastian, Spain where she was placed 8th in the world and was awarded the silver badge and the Second Asian Shooting Championship at Seoul in Korea where she won a bronze medal in the team event. She was awarded the "Arjuna Award" in 1968 by the then President of India Shri V.V. Giri. Her other interests include the preservation of heritage properties and ancestral forts and palaces that belong to the Bikaner family. She is a life member of INTACH and is the chairperson of the six public charitable trusts set up by her late father maharaja Dr. Karni Singhji that carry out numerous charitable and other philanthropic works in Bikaner. In 1999 she founded Maharaja Dr. Karni Singhji Memorial Foundation in the memory of her late Father.
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