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{{Infobox monarch
| name =Maharaja Kishan Singh
| title =Maharaja of [[Bharatpur State|Bharatpur]]
| image= Maharaja Kisan Singh.jpg
| caption =
| reign =28 November 1918 – 27 March 1929
| coronation =
| predecessor =[[Ram Singh of Bharatpur|Maharaja Ram Singh]] (Ruler)<br>[[Maharani Girraj Kaur]] (Regent)
| successor =[[Maharaja Brijendra Singh]]
| spouse = Maharani Rajendra Kaur
| issue =[[Maharaja Brijendra Singh]]
| royal house = Sinsiniwar [[Jat people|Jat]] Dynasty
| father =[[Ram Singh of Bharatpur|Maharaja Ram Singh]]
| mother =[[Maharani Girraj Kaur]]
| birth_date =4 October 1899
| birth_place =Moti Mahal
| death_date =27 March 1929 (aged 29)
| death_place =[[Agra]]
| place of burial=
}}

'''Maharaja Sir Kishan Singh''', [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] (1899–1929) was the ruling Maharaja of the [[princely state]] of [[Bharatpur State|Bharatpur]] (1918–1929) and successor of [[Maharani Girraj Kaur]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}During Partition, the princely states of [[Alwar]] and [[Bharatpur State|Bharatpur]] were the sites of a pogrom directed against the Muslim Meo community. The Meos are a distinctive Rajput Muslim community with a number of Hindu or Rajput practices. They also had a history of being assertive, and bearing arms.

Both Jai Singh of Alwar – who ruled from 1903 to 1933 – and Kishan Singh of Bharatpur(1899-1929) provided official patronage to the [[Arya Samaj]] and its [[Shuddhi (Hinduism)|Shuddhi]] movement of conversion to Hinduism. The [[Hindu Mahasabha]] and the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS) grew in importance with the patronage of their durbars. The Mahasabha’s [[V. D. Savarkar]] set in motion a policy of courting Hindu princes.He officially changed the official script from Nastaliq to Nagari, and banned the teaching of Urdu and Persian in state schools. The [[Shahi Jama Masjid]] in Alwar was one of several important buildings that were converted by order of the government. Discriminatory taxation led to a tax revolt by the Muslim Meo population, in the course of which the state army opened fire on a crowd with machine guns at Govindgarh on January 7-8, 1933, and killed more than 30 people.Nevertheless, [[Ian Copland]], examining census records, shows how the Muslim population which had been 26.2% of Alwar in 1941 and 19.2% of Bharatpur, dropped after the pogroms, conversions and flight, to 6% in both states. About two-thirds of their land was taken away.

==Early life==
Maharaja Kishan Singh was born at Moti Mahal, Bharatpur on 4 October 1899 in a Jat family. He was eldest son of [[Ram Singh of Bharatpur|Maharaja Ram Singh]] by his second wife, [[Maharani Girraj Kaur]]. He was educated at [[Mayo College]], [[Ajmer]] and [[Wellington]]{{clarify|date=June 2019|reason=which Wellington?}}.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/bharatpur.html Genealogy of the ruling chiefs of Bharatpur]{{S-start}}
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{{Succession box
| title = Maharaja of Bharatpur
| years = 1918–1929 AD
| before = [[Maharani Girraj Kaur]]
| after = [[Maharaja Brijendra Singh]]
}}
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