Sardar Umrao Singh, born 1870 at Majitha, a village in Amritsar district, educated at Government School in Amritsar and later joined the Aitchison College, Lahore; a Provincial Darbari, visited England in 1896 with his wife and again in 1897 to attend the Diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. A scholar in Sanskrit and Persian, he studied philosophy and religion, dabbled in astronomy, photography and carpentry, and spoke five different languages fluently. As head of the Majitha family, Umrao Singh was privileged to attend the Coronation darbars in 1903 and 1910. In the autumn of 1912, he went with his wife to Budapest, returning to India in 1921, after the general amnesty had been granted by the King for political offences during the war. From 1929 to 1934, he lived in Paris, returning to India in 1934; he married 1stly, 1883, Sardarni Narindar Kumari, died 1907, daughter of Sardar Gulab Singh Attariwala of Attari, married 2ndly, 1911, Marie Antoinette Gottesman, pianist, a Hungarian lady whom he had met in Lahore at the house of Princess Sofia Duleep Singh, died 1948, and had issue. He died in Delhi on 17th December 1954. His Grand Son Kanwar Rishikesh Singh Built this Palace. This Palace is superb Built Local Zamindar in Sardar Nagar Gorakhpur UP India.
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