User:Maharajasirmur

a) Kunwar Shri Udai Singh. b. 30th August 1953. Adopted by his maternal grandmother, H.H. Shri Maharani Badilala Durga Kumari Deviji Sahiba after the death of her husband on 23rd September 1965 (not sanctioned by the GOI). He subsequently assumed the headship of the Royal House of Sirmur and the title of Maharaja of Sirmur, but neither these nor his adoption received sanction or recognition from the GOI. His grandmother had become estranged from the late Maharaja and was virtually repudiated by him over twenty years before his death, and they had ceased to form part of a joint Hindu family. She therefore did not have the Maharaja's sanction nor enjoy the right to adopt any heir on his behalf. Furthermore, family custom required any adoption to come from either a blood relative in the male line of the Sirmur family or from the same clan. Lastly, Hindu custom usually requires that the eldest son in a family continue his paternal family line and fullfil the duties and obligations pertaining to them, adoption to another clan being sanctioned for younger sons. The Kunwar fulfilled none of these requirements. Any adoption by his grandmother consequently had only a religious significance, enabling him to perform certain religious and obsequies at her death, but conferring no rights to either succession or property pertaining to her husband's house. The family inheritance remain a matter of legal dispute with his maternal aunt, the Maharani of Jaipur, to whom her father willed his estate according to the then Indian laws on inheritance.