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{{Infobox royalty
|name =Kamakhya Narain Singh
|title = Maharaja Bahadur of [[Ramgarh Raj]]
|image=
|succession = [[Ramgarh Raj|Head of the House of Narain]]
|reign = 1919 – 7 May 1970
|reign-type = Period
|predecessor = Maharaja Lakshmi Narain Singh
|suc-type = Heir apparent
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1916|08|10}}
|birth_place = [[Padma, Hazaribagh|Padma]], [[Ramgarh Raj]], [[Dominion of India|India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1970|05|07|1916|08|10}}
|death_place = [[Kolkata]]
|place of burial =
|spouse = Maharani Lalita Rajya Lakshmi
|house = Narain
|father = Maharaja Lakshmi Narain Singh Bahadur
|mother = Maharajmata Shashank Manjiri
Devi
|religion = [[Hinduism]]
}}

'''[[Maharaja Bahadur]] Kamakhya Narain Singh''' Bahadur (10 August 1916 – 7 May 1970) of [[Ramgarh, Jharkhand]] was the [[zamindar]] of [[Ramgarh Raj]] and later a politician. He belonged to the [[Ramgarh Raj|Narain Dynasty]].

He was educated at [[Rajkumar College, Raipur]] and at [[Mayo College]], [[Ajmer]]. He became the Raja of Ramgarh in 1919 upon death of his father, Raja Lakshmi Narain Singh. He formed his own political party (Janta Party of Ramgarh) and was a prominent leader in Bihar at that time. His family (Narain Raj Parivar) was the first family in India to use helicopters in election campaign. He served as the Vice-President of the Bihar Landholder's Association and the All India Kshatriya Mahasabha. He was also Member of the Managing Committee and General Council of Rajkumar College; Member of the Executive Body of the Bihar War Committee.<ref name=r>{{Cite web |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/ramgarh.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409080546/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/r/ramgarh.html |archive-date=9 April 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as president of [[Akhil Bharatiya Kshatriya Mahasabha]] in 1943 and 1953.

He was married to Maharani Lalita Rajya Lakshmi Devi, daughter of Supradipta Manyabara Lt. Gen. Maharajkumar Singha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal in 1936. They had a son, Indra Jitendra Narain Singh.<ref name=r/>

He entered politics in 1946 following the formal accession of the Ramgarh state into the Indian Republic. In 1952 Bihar Assembly elections, he contested from [[Dhanbad]] as a candidate of [[Swatantra Party]] but was defeated by a noted freedom-fighter and labor rights leader, [[Purushottam K. Chauhan]].<ref>{{cite book|title=India, a reference annual|year=1958|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|pages=431|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqcSAAAAIAAJ&q=PURSHOTTAM+CHAUHAN+DHANBAD}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dhanbad :List of MLA's from 1952 to 1972|url=http://dhanbad.nic.in/Election/mla.html|publisher=Dhanbad District Official Website |accessdate=22 June 2012}}</ref> Later in the Bihar Assembly Elections of 1967, serious opposition was offered by the Raja Bahadur's Janata Party to the ruling Congress government. The Raja Bahadur and his younger brother, Dr. [[Basant Narain Singh]], became Cabinet Ministers in the government headed by [[Chief Minister of Bihar]], [[Mahamaya Prasad Sinha]]. He resigned from the party because he was not made the Deputy Chief Minister. In late 1960s, Kamakhya Narayan Singh was popularly an aspirant for Rajput supremacy in Bihar against Rajput stalwart, Sri [[Satyendra Narayan Sinha]] (then known as "''Coming Chief Minister of Bihar''") but was outmanoeuvred. His party later merged with the [[Swatantra Party]]. Many of his family members became important political functionaries and legislators.<ref>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080730/jsp/jharkhand/story_9620829.jsp</ref>

Singh died of [[cardiac arrest]] at 12:25 a.m. ([[Indian Standard Time|IST]]) on 7 May 1970 at his residence in [[Calcutta]]. In the days preceding his death, he had complained of an [[abdomen]] problem.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ramgarh Raja Dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2YdlAAAAIBAJ&pg=2287%2C2885092|accessdate=12 February 2018|work=The Indian Express|date=8 May 1970|page=7}}</ref> He was cremated on the banks of a river two miles from his [[Padma, Hazaribagh|Padma]], his place of birth near [[Hazaribagh]] in [[Bihar]] (today in [[Jharkhand]]).<ref>{{cite news|title=Ramgarh Raja Cremated|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19700509&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=12 February 2018|agency=Press Trust of India|publisher=The Indian Express|date=9 May 1970|page=7}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*Chaturvedi, Ritu & Bakshi, S. ''eds.'' (2007), "Bihar Through the Ages", Sarup & Sons Pg. 279
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065035/http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/r/ramgarh.html |date=July 16, 2011 |title=Raja Bahadur Kamakhya Narain Singh's genealogical profile }}

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[[Category:People from Ramgarh district]]
[[Category:Jharkhand politicians]]
[[Category:Swatantra Party politicians]]
[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1967–1969]]
[[Category:Leaders of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:People from Kolkata]]

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