Born in Bangkok, Maharaj Devraj Singh of Jaipur graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in business administration and hospitality management in 2003. In 2006, he completed his master’s degree in international development studies from Chulalongkorn University. He then worked for the late King of Thailand’s Chaipattana Foundation for two years, involved in various rural development initiatives. He came to live full-time in Jaipur, caring for his ailing grandmother towards the closing months of 2008, and after her passing in July 2009, has remained in his fatherland. He is the grandson of Jaipur’s last ruling maharaja, Sawai Man Singh II, and his wife, Maharani Gayatri Devi.
His book:
Dulha Rai’s Conquest of Dausa: The Early history of the Kachwahas