Jam Ranjitsinhji

                                     Jam Ranjitsinhji

                                                       

     Jamnagar Ranjitsinhji came to the throne after the death of the ruler Jaswant Singhji (Jasaji) in the eighteenth of Jamnagar.  He was born on 10-8-16 in Sadodar.  Educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, and became a barrister.  He made a name for himself in the world of cricket.  When he was Yuvraj, he lived abroad from 18 to 19 AD and was absorbed in cricket. He wrote poems about his cricketing achievements in Saurashtra and also traveled to many countries of the world.  He was nicknamed Jam Ranji and since he was highly educated and traveled the world, he modernized the state of Jamnagar and gave it the nickname Paris of Saurashtra.  He undertook the task of decorating Jamnagar and first improved the roads.  In addition, numerous buildings were erected in the city.  In which (1) Vibhavilas (2) Jamvilas (3) Amarvilas (4) Irwin Hospital (5) Solarium (6) Sajuba Girls High School (7) Market (8) Sumer Club (9) Railway Station (11) Cricket Bungalow (12)  Three statues, Jam Rawal, Jam Ranji and Montagu (13), Garcia Bordig (14), Ranjit Sagar Dam (1), Ghanshyam Bank, etc., did important work.  He wanted to put the state on the path of modernity.  So the administration also made drastic changes.  Instead of taking sharecropping from farmers, they started taking cash revenue.  Recognizing the rights of the farmers on the land and abolishing the system of usurpation, reforming the farmers' concessions etc. in the field of agriculture won the hearts of the farmers and it seemed that the farmers got the benefits like democracy.  He also worked hard to develop trade and commerce like the farmers.  Developed Bedi port and railways and promoted trade.  Is.  Made primary education free in 1911 and secondary education free in 1918.  Jam Ranji fought on the Mesopotamian front in World War I and was shot in the eye.  The British Government conferred on him the titles of Honorary Major (1917) and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel (1918) and KCSI.  And GCSI.  He went to Geneva three times to attend a meeting of the League of Nations, which can be considered an important achievement.  Shankaracharya of Dwarka gave him the title of 'Rajya Dharma Ratnakar'.  It is a novelty that such people were writing newspapers against the prince who decorated Vatsal and Jamnagar.  The development of Jamnagar and the personality he had can make him a passionate prince and a diplomat and a modern thinker.  He built wide paved roads, sidewalks, public gardens, chowks and similar shops in Jamnagar.  When Jam Ranji died on 9-9-18, Digvijay Singhji, the son of Juan Singhji, whom he had adopted, came to the throne.