Prithvi Singh II

Sawai Prithvi Singh II (9 January 1762 – 13 April 1778), also known as Prithviraj Singh II, was the Kachwaha ruler of the Kingdom of Jaipur from 5 March 1768 until his death on 13 April 1778. He was the eldest surviving son of his father Sawai Madho Singh I and grandson of Sawai Jai Singh II.

Biography

Maharaja Sawai Prithvi Singh II was six years old when he ascended the throne of the Kachwaha Kingdom of Jaipur in the year 1768 after his father's death. Being elder, Prithvi Singh succeeded his father on the throne and his mother queen Chundawatji became the regent. One of his nobles, Raja Pratap Singh of the Naruka Kachwaha branch of nobility separated himself from the State of Jaipur and established an independent kingdom at Machheri near Alwar and laid the foundation in 1770 which remained an independent ruling territory and later came to known as Alwar State. That is how Alwar became a separate state independent of Jaipur. Sawai Prithvi Singh II ruled for 10 years and died of a fall from his horse in 1778 at the age of 16, leaving behind one widow his third queen the Kishangarh princess who being pregnant was sent to his father's protection giving birth to her late husband's only son Man Singh the undisputed heir to the throne of Jaipur.