Kameshwar Singh was patron of the All India Football Federation which was founded at Darbhanga in 1935.
15 Facts About Kameshwar Singh
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Kameshwar Singh had started the Darbhanga Cup tournament at Calcutta in which teams from Lahore, Peshawar, Madras, Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Afghanistan and England participated.
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Kameshwar Singh was the son of Maharaja Sir Rameshwar Singh Goutam, the King of Darbhanga Raj.
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Kameshwar Singh was born on 28 November 1907 at Darbhanga in a Maithil Brahmin family.
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Kameshwar Singh succeeded, to the throne of his estate of Darbhanga Raj, upon death of his father on 3 July 1929.
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Kameshwar Singh married for second time with Rani Kameshwari Priya.
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Maharajadhiraj Kameshwar singh married for third time with Maharani adhirani Kamsundari Devi in 1943.
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Kameshwar Singh was lifetime president of Bihar Landholders' Association and served as the President of the All-India Landholders' Association and Bengal Landholders' Association.
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Kameshwar Singh was the first person in India to get a bust of Mahatma Gandhi made, by celebrated artist Clare Sheridan, cousin of Winston Churchill.
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Kameshwar Singh served a pro-vice-chancellor of Benaras Hindu University, to which his father Sir Rameshwar Singh was a major benefactor.
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Kameshwar Singh chaired the special meeting in 1939, when Madan Mohan Malviyaji voluntarily stepped down as Chancellor of BHU and Radhakrishnan was unanimously elected to the post.
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In 1930, Sir Kameshwar Singh, donated Rupees One Lakh and twenty-thousand to University of Patna for encouragement of vernacular language.
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Maharaja Kameshwar Singh inherited investments in businesses and industries begun by his father, who was the co-founder of Bengal National Bank in 1908.
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Kameshwar Singh, who inherited some of his father's legacy, further expanded his stake in varied industries.
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Kameshwar Singh controlled 14 businesses producing sugar, jute, cotton, coal, railway, iron and steel, aviation, print media, electricity and other products.