Sawai Pratap Singh Naruka

Rao Raja Sawai Pratap Singh was the founding king of Alwar State. He belonged to the Naruka clan of Kachhwaha dynasty.

History

Pratap Singh who was earlier a jagirdar of "Dhai Gaon" near Machari in Alwar. His successor "Bakhtawar Singh Kachwaha" was defeated when he ventured an armed incursion into neighbouring Jaipur State and consequent treaty mediated by East India Company prohibited him from political intercourse with other states without the consent of colonial British. Pratap's descendant and the last reigning ruler, H.H. Maharaja Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar Bahadur, signed the accession to the Indian Union on 7 April 1949.