Maharaja of Jaunpur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coronation: | 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reign: | 1944-1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reg-Type: | Reign | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor: | Shrikrishna Dutt Dubey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor: | Title abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yadavendra Dutt Dubey (7 December 1918 – 1999) was the Maharaja of Jaunpur since 1956. He had been a member of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 1942 and became its (director) for the Varanasi division.[1] He was elected to the 6th and 9th Lok Sabha from Jaunpur on a Bharatiya Jan Sangh ticket. He was a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 17 years and served as its leader of opposition from 1962 to 1964.[2]
. Christophe Jaffrelot. The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics . C. Hurst & Co. Publishers . 1996 . 978-1850653011 . 187.