Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo (1901-1958) was the last ruler of erstwhile Korea State.[1] He was crowned as the king of Korea in 1925 and continued to rule the state until the state's merger with independent India on 1 January 1948.[2] [3] He was a Rajput by caste.[4] [5] He had represented the ruling Chief in the second Round Table Conference held in London in 1931.[2]
He is notorious for killing the last three surviving Asiatic cheetahs of India.[6] [7] It is believed that he killed as many as 1,710 tigers in the central part of India.[8] His granddaughter, Ambica Singh, defended her grandfather claiming that he never killed big cats for fun but rather hunted only those animals who had turned man-eaters. Nevertheless, while tigers are well-known for occasionally becoming man-eaters, there is no documentation of wild cheetahs ever killing a human, and the number of tigers reported to have become man-eaters in his lifetime is far less than the as many as 1,710 tigers he reportedly killed.
He died in 1958.[9]