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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Thakore of Limbdi from 1940 to 1941}}<br />
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| title = [[Maharana]]<br />
| succession = [[Thakur (title)|Thakore]] of [[Limbdi State|Limbdi]]<br />
| reign = 30&nbsp;September 1940{{Sndash}}{{Avoid wrap|6&nbsp;January 1941}}<br />
| predecessor = [[Daulatsinhji]]<br />
| successor = Chhatrasalji<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1896|04|10}}<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|01|06|1896|04|10|df=yes}}<br />
| issue = {{ubl|Ramrajendrasinhji|Prem Kunverba|Dharmendra Kunverba|Chhatrasalji}}<br />
| issue-link = #Early_life,_family,_and_education<br />
| father = [[Daulatsinhji]]<br />
| mother = Baluba<br />
| spouse 1 = {{marriage|Nand Kunverba|1910}}<br />
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|education={{ubl|[[Eton College]]|[[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]]}}<br />
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'''Digvijaysinhji''' (10&nbsp;April 1896{{Sndash}}6&nbsp;January 1941) was <!-- please don't add "the" -->[[Thakur (title)|Thakore]] of [[Limbdi State|Limbdi]] from 30 September 1940 until his death in 1941.<br />
== Early life, family, and education ==<br />
Digvijaysinhji was born on 10 April 1896 at [[Jamnagar]] to [[Daulatsinhji]] and his wife Baluba.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Sharpe |first=Elizabeth |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5186 |title=Thakore Sahib Sir Daulat Singh of Limbdi, Kathiawar: A Biography |date=1931 |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |location=London |pages=28,55,106–109,123}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Soszynski |first=Henry |title=LIMBDI |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/l/limbdi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925121427/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/l/limbdi.html |archive-date=2017-09-25 |access-date=2026-05-06 |website=members.iinet.net.au}}</ref> He was first educated at [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot|Rajkumar College]] in [[Rajkot]] and then at [[Eton College]] in [[Eton, Berkshire|Eton]].<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forty_Years_of_the_Rajkumar_College/Qm0gAQAAMAAJ |title=Forty Years of the Rajkumar College: An Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rajkumar College, Rajkot |date=1910 |publisher=Printed and bound by Hazell, Watson and Viney |pages=194,244,293,305–306,349,348 |language=en}}</ref> He married twice.<ref name=":5" /> Firstly, in 1910, to Nand Kunverba, the only daughter of Kesarisinhji, the [[Maharaja]] of [[Idar State|Idar]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Khosla |first1=K.R. |url=http://archive.org/details/TwiK_his-imperial-majesty-king-george-5-and-the-princes-of-india-and-the-indian-empir |title=His Imperial Majesty King George V and the Princes of India and the Indian Empire (Historical-Biographical) |last2=Chatterjee |first2=R.P. |publisher=The Imperial Publishing Co |year=1937 |location=Lahore |pages=132}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Solomon |first=R. V. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indian_States/47sfj8DUwNgC |title=Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey |last2=Bond |first2=J. W. |date=2006 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |isbn=978-81-206-1965-4 |pages=683 |language=en}}</ref> This marriage was proposed by [[Pratap Singh of Idar|Pratap Singh]].<ref name=":5" /> To mark this marriage, his father established several scholarships to help aid students.<ref name=":1" /> By his first wife, he had one son, Ramrajendrasinhji, and two daughters, Prem Kunverba and Dharmendra Kunverba.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":2" /> By his second wife, he had a son, Chhatrasalji.<ref name=":2" /> He attended the [[Delhi Durbar]] of 1911 with his father.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Coronation_Durbar_Delhi_1911/4WxBAQAAMAAJ |title=Coronation Durbar, Delhi 1911: Official Directory, with Maps |date=1911 |publisher=Superintendent Government Printing, India |pages=222–223 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Reign ==<br />
Upon the death of his father on 30 September 1940, he succeeded him to the rank, dignity and title of the Thakore of Limbdi.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=McLeod |first=John Edmond |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sovereignty_Power_Control/-uL7EAAAQBAJ |title=Sovereignty, Power, Control: Politics in the State of Western India, 1916-1947 |date=2023-07-31 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-64479-3 |pages=204–205 |language=en}}</ref> However, his reign was short-lived, as he died 3 months and 7 days after his accession to the throne.<ref name=":12" /><br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died on 6 January 1941 and was succeeded by Chhatrasalji as the Thakore of Limbdi.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107205 |title=Who S Who Among Indian Princes Rajas And Chiefs Nobles 1941 - 42 |date=1942 |pages=1282}}</ref><br />
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