Karan Singh

Karan Singh () adalah seorang anggota Dewan Parlemen Tinggi India, Rajya Sabha. Ia adalah anggota senior Partai Kongres Nasional India yang menjabat sebagai Sadr-i-Riyasat dan Gubernur Jammu dan Kashmir. Singh adalah putra dari penguasa terakhir wilayah kerajaan Jammu dan Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh. Dalam amendemen ke-26 pada Konstitusi India yang dipromulgasikan pada 1971, Pemerintah India menurunkan seluruh simbol resmi kepangeranan India, termasuk gelar, hak dan tunjanga.1. , "Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p 278). 2.  Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the break up of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time. Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialize only in style. A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in 1947, with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in 1971 had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and titles." (pp 37–38). 3.  Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses." (page 78). 4.  Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in 1971, when the constitution ceased to recognize them as princes and their privy purses, titles, and special privileges were abolished." (page 84). 5.  Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through 1971, the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by 381 votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by 167 votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page 441). 6.  Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their titles." (page 10). 7.  Quote: "Indian States: "Various (formerly) semi-independent areas in India ruled by native princes .... Under British rule ... administered by residents assisted by political agents. Titles and remaining privileges of princes abolished by Indian government 1971." (page 520). 8.  Quote: "A monarchy is only as good as the reigning monarch: thus it is with the princely states. Once they seemed immutable, invincible. In 1971 they were "derecognized," their privileges, privy purses and titles all abolished at a stroke" (page 91) Singh meraih Padma Vibhushan pada 2005.

 Keluarga dan Leluhur 
 Istri: Yasho Rajya Lakshmi, cucu Perdana Menteri Rana terakhir, Mohan Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana dan putri Jenderal Sharada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana dari Nepal.
 Putra: Vikramaditya Singh; married Chitrangada Scindia Chitrangada Scindia, Madhavrao Scindia of Gwalior's daughter, in 1987.The Gwalior Royal Wedding Event covered in India Today
 Putra: Ajatshatru Singh
 Putri: Jyotsna Singh

 Daftar pustaka 
 Towards A New India (1974)
 Population, Poverty and the Future of India (1975)
 One Man's World (1986)
 Essays on Hinduism. Ratna Sagar. 1987. ISBN 81-7070-173-2.
 Humanity at the Crossroads, with Daisaku Ikeda. Oxford University Press, 1988.
 Autobiography (2 vols.)(1989)
 Brief Sojourn (1991)
 Hymn to Shiva and Other Poems (1991)
 The Transition to a Global Society (1991)
 Mountain of Shiva (1994)
 Autobiography. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-563636-8.
 Prophet of Indian Nationalism
 Hinduism. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2005. ISBN 1-84557-425-7
 Mundaka Upanishad: The Bridge to Immortality.
 Ten Gurus of the Sikhs Their Life Story, Tr. into English Pramila Naniwadekar & Moreshwar Naniwadekar.
 Nehru's Kashmir. Wisdom Tree. ISBN 978-81-8328-160-7.
 A Treasury of Indian Wisdom. Penguin Ananda, 2010. ISBN 978-0-670-08450-0.

 Referensi 

 Detailed Profile: Dr. Karan Singh Government of India portal

 Bacaan tambahan 
 Jammu and Kashmir: 1949–1964: Selected Correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Karan Singh. Edited by Jamaid Alam. Penguin 2006.  

 Pranala luar 

 Dr. Karan Singh's Official Website
 Dr. Karan Singh's Official Facebook Page
 Film: I Believe: Universal Values for a Global Society with Dr. Singh and by Raja Choudhury.
 Genealogy of the ruling chiefs of Jammu and Kashmir
 Proclamation of May 1, 1951 on Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly by Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh from the Official website of Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India 

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