Person · r. 1753 – 1793
Bijai Singh
Bijai Singh succeeded his father Bakht Singh in 1753 at about twenty years old, his accession acknowledged by the emperor and neighbouring princes, and died in 1793 after a thirty-one-year reign.
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- vol. II (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 1060 · read as page image
CHAPTER 13. Rāja Bijai Singh, a.d. 1753-93.—Bijai Singh, then in his twentieth year, succeeded his father, Bakhta. His accession was acknowledged not only by the emperor, but by all the princes around him.
- vol. II (Crooke ed., 1920), p. 1077 · read as page image
Death of Rāja Bijai Singh.—In the midst of this conflict, his dominions curtailed, his chiefs in rebellion, his sons and grandsons mutually opposed to each other... Bijai Singh died, in the month Asarh S. 1850, after a reign of thirty-one years.