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{{Infobox royalty
|name=Hanwant Singh
|title=[[Maharaja]] of [[Jodhpur State|Jodhpur]]|image=Hanwant_Singh.jpg
|succession=[[Maharaja of Jodhpur]]
|reign=1947–1952
|reign-type=Period
|predecessor=[[Umaid Singh]]
|successor=[[Gaj Singh]]
|birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1923|6|16}}
|birth_place=[[Jodhpur]], [[Jodhpur district]], [[Rajasthan]], India
|death_date={{death date and age|1952|1|26|1923|6|16|df=y}}
|death_place=
|spouse=
|issue=[[Gaj Singh]]
|house=[[Rathore|Rathore-Jodhpur]]
|father=[[Umaid Singh|Maharaja Umaid Singh of Jodhpur]]
|mother=
|religion=[[Hinduism]]
}}

Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraj Shri '''Hanwant Singh Rathore''' of [[Jodhpur]] (16 June 1923 – 26 January 1952) was the ruler of the [[Princely states|Indian princely state]] of [[Jodhpur]] from 1947 to 1949. He was an avid [[polo]] player. He succeeded his father as [[Ruler of Jodhpur|Maharaja of Jodhpur]] on 9 June 1947. He held the title till his death in a plane crash on 26 January 1952.<ref>{{cite web| title = HH The Maharaja Hanwant Singh| publisher = Maharaja Jodhpur website| url = http://www.maharajajodhpur.com/hh/hist_hanwant.htm| access-date = 2014-06-16| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130825024650/http://www.maharajajodhpur.com/hh/hist_hanwant.htm| archive-date = 25 August 2013| df = dmy-all}}</ref>

==Family life==

In 1943 he married Maharani [[Krishna Kumari (regent)|Krishna Kumari]] Ba Sahiba of [[Dhrangadhra State|Dhrangadhra]] by whom he had a son [[Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur|Gaj Singh]] [[Rathore]]; daughter, Sailesh Kumari married in [[Banswara State|Banswara]]; and daughter, [[Chandresh Kumari Katoch]] of [[Kangra-Lambagraon|Kangra]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalkangra.com/presentfamilyandtheirbusinesses.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-12-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722143010/http://www.royalkangra.com/presentfamilyandtheirbusinesses.htm |archive-date=22 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 1948, he met and married 19-year-old Scottish nurse Sandra McBryde, divorcing her after a tempestuous and brief union. Later he married the Muslim actress [[Zubeida Begum|Zubeida]] who converted to Hinduism as Vidya Rani Rathore, by whom he had a son named [[Hukum Singh Rathore]] (Tutu Bana), but soon after their marriage they were disowned by the royal family and as a result he left Umaid Bhawan Singh palace and started to live in [[Mehrangarh Fort|Mehrangarh]]. From her first marriage Zubeida had a son, [[Khalid Mohammed]], a film critic and director.<ref>{{cite web | title = Zubeidaa's secret | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70458.cms? |date= 11 July 2003| accessdate = 2014-06-16 | work = [[The Times of India]] }}</ref>

After their death, his son Tutu was brought up by Rajmata of Jodhpur, and later went to study at [[Mayo College]] in Ajmer. He married Rao Rani Rajeshwari Kumari Rathore, daughter of Rao Raja Daljit Singh of [[Alwar]]. The couple had one son, Parikshit Singh Rathore (b. 1974) and one daughter, Jainandini Kanwar (b. 1975). However, on 17 April 1981, he was beheaded and found on the streets of Jodhpur.<ref name="Anvar Alikhan">{{cite web | title = The Real Zubeidaa |publisher=[[rediff.com]], Movies| url = http://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/jan/17zub.htm |author=Anvar Alikhan|date=17 January 2001|accessdate = 2014-06-16 }}</ref>

==Final years==

After [[India]]n independence and formation of [[Rajasthan]] as a state within [[India]], he formed a new political party Akhil Bhartiya Ramrajya Parishad in 1952. Campaigning in both the [[1952 Indian general election|Indian general]] and state Assembly elections scheduled for February 1952, Hanwant Singh would have won a majority in his region. After only four hours of sleep he took off in a small aircraft with his wife, Zubeida on 26 January 1952. The plane crashed killing him at the age of 28. Zubeidaa also perished in the accident.<ref name="Anvar Alikhan"/><ref name=today/>

In 2011, wreckage of the aircraft, [[Beechcraft Bonanza]], a light six-seater aircraft, was discovered inside Jodhpur Central Jail.<ref name=today>{{cite web | title = Jodhpur's Maharaja and his wife's aircraft wreckage discovered inside jail|publisher=India Today
| url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jodhpur-maharaja-hanwant-singh-and-his-wife-zubeida-aircraft-wreckage-site-discovered/1/143359.html |date=11 July 2011| accessdate = 2014-06-16 }}</ref> Subsequently, in 2012, the [[Mehrangarh Fort]] Museum founded in 1972 by Maharaja [[Gaj Singh]], formally asked the jail to transfer the wreckage to the museum.<ref>{{cite news |title= Rajasthan museum seeks maharaja's plane crash wreckage|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17136859 |newspaper= BBC News|date=24 February 2012 |accessdate=2014-06-16}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Rulers of Marwar]]

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