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Bhawani Singh (politician)

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Religion
  
Hinduism

Spouse(s)
  
Vidya vati Kumari


Political party
  
Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
Bhawani Singh

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Born
  
May 25, 1911Pokhran, Rajasthan (
1911-05-25
)

Bhawani Singh (born 25 May 1911) was an Indian judge and politician from Rajasthan. A former jagirdar of Pokhran a feudal estate (thikana) in Jodhpur State of Rajasthan in pre-independent India, he became a member of the 1st Lok Sabha, the Lower house of Indian parliament from Barmer-Jalore constituency, after getting elected as an Independent candidate in the Indian general election, 1952.

Born in Pokhran to Thakur Chin Singh, Thakur of Pokhran in present Jaisalmer district, who was Pradhan of the Champawat Rathore clan and also a judge at Allahabad High Court. Bhawani Singh did his schooling from Mayo College, a boarding school in Ajmer, followed by Deccan College, Pune (University of Pune), M.A. from Cambridge University and L.L.B. and F.R.E.S from Lincoln's Inn, London. He remained District and Sessions Judge from 1941 to 1947. He was a judge at Sessions Court when he retired to join politics in the first general elections of independent India.

He was married to Vidya Vati Kumari of Katesar, and the couple had three sons.

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