Zalim Singh II

Maharaj Rana Zalim Singh II was the third Jhala Rajput ruler of Jhalawar in the British Raj from the year 1875 until his deposition in 1896.

Birth Rana Zalim Singh, originally born as Kumarji Saheb Wakht Sinhji in the year 1864, was the son of Kumarji Saheb Kesari Sinhji, the second son of Thakore Saheb Rai Sinhji of Wadhwan in Gujarat.He was adopted from the place keeping in view with the fact the succession at Jhalawar continue from the original parent branch, the Wadhawan branch of Jhala Rajputs.

Education He was educated at the Mayo College in Ajmer.

Adoption Maharaj Rana Prithvi Singh of Jhalawar, who had no male child of his own, adopted Bakht Singh, aged 9, from the Jhala family of Wadhwan, in 1873. On 1 June 1876, Bakht Singh was acknowledged as the successor to the late Prithvi Singh and was installed as the Maharaj Rana of Jhalawar on 24 June 1876.

Following this, he went on to live in Varanasi on a pension of £2,000 (Rs. 30,000), and the administration of the state was placed in the hands of a British resident. A major portion of the territories ceded by the Kota State by the Treaty of 1838 to form the Jhalawar State was reverted to them in 1897, as Zalim Singh I's heirs and successors had failed after his deposition. With the remaining portion, a new state was formed, of which Bhawani Singh was made the first ruler in 1899.