He contributed six lakhs of rupees towards the Endowment Funds of the Khalsa College, and the interest on that sum, Rs. 21,000, is annually paid to the said institution. Other annual grants to different institutions are: Rs. 1,800 per annum to the M.A.O. College, Aligarh; Rs. 100 per annum to the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar; Rs. 100 per annum to the Leper Asylum, Sabathu. His Highness takes great interest and displays remarkable skill in shooting and manly sports. Cricket is his favourite game, and when the Indian cricket team went to England in May, 1911, he was Captain of the team. At the invitation of the Imperial Government he attended the Coronation Ceremony of Their Imperial Majesties the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress in England, and was present at all the important functions connected with that august ceremony. He gave a donation of £8,000 for founding a Sikh Dharamsala in London, the opening ceremony of which was performed by him while in England.
His Highness was present at the Coronation Durbar of 1911, where he received many marks of the Royal favour, as well as his well-merited title.
JHIND — His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Englishia Raja-i-Rajagan Maharaja Sir Ranbir Singh Bahadur, K.C.S.I., Maharaja of—a Ruling Chief, whose biography appears in Part III, page 10, of this work, was granted the hereditary title of Maharaja by His Excellency the Governor-General of India on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar.
NABHA — His Highness Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, Maharaja of—a Ruling Chief, was born in 1883, and succeeded his father, Maharaja Sir Hira Singh, G.C.S.I, G.C.I.E., in January, 1912. He was formally installed and invested with full powers in a public Durbar held at Nabha on 27th March, 1912, by the Political Agent of the Phulkian Stair. The history of the State, with the biography of the late Ruler,
