6 Indian Rulers Descendants Who Now Dwell In Poverty

BENGALURU: India is a country where it has seen many rulers and warriors who gave up their life for the sake of the country and freed us from the British rule. But it breaks my heart to tell that the families and descendants of these brave freedom fighters and rulers are living their lives in rags. The abolition of privy purse rendered many, once lavishingly wealthy families are now in a condition of hopelessness and destitute, according to culnuts.com.

Descendants of Tipu Sultan (Fateh Ali Khan):

Fateh Ali Khan (Tipu Sultan), was the first freedom fighter of India as also known as the world’s first missile man, was the most famous and brave ruler of Mysore whom the British feared the most. The descendants of theTiger of Mysore are facing many hard challenges to live through their poor life. 

One of his descendants plies a rickshaw and the other has a kerosene dealership while a third looks after a garment shop in Calcutta’s Tollygunge area.

Sultana Begum, Wife Of The Great Grandson Of Bahadur Shah Zafar:

Sultana Begum is the descendant of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. She leads a life of desperate poverty and struggles to feed her family which includes six children. Her ancestors would have lived in luxurious palaces while they ruled over a vast and wealthy empire. Despite evidence that she is related to the 19th century royal family,  Sultana goes about her daily life on a basic pension of just £60 a month.

She receives £60 (6,000 rupees) a month as part of her pension, which covers herself and her six children, five daughters and one son. His husband was Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht’s, and after his death in 1980, she lives in her two-story home in the slums outside Kolkata.

Raja Brijraj Kshatriya Birbar Chamupati Singh, Mahapatra Of Tigara:

A former Raja of orrisa’s princely states is living as a pauper on the charity of commoners who were once his subjects was once the life and soul of India’s royal party circuit. He kept a fleet of 25 vintage luxury cars and lived in a palace with 30 servants. He married a princess and was known throughout India for his prowess as a “shikari” a big game hunter.

But today, aged 92, he lives alone in a home described as a “mud hut” with a leaking roof and curtains of cobwebs, left by his wife and six children to the mercy of the villagers who bring him rice and lentils for lunch.

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