The Maharaja of Nabha, Ripudaman Singh shortly after he was exiled and deposed by the British for his anti-British activities (1929). Nabha and Patiala were neighbouring states each ruled by a Maharaja but under the close Governorship of the British....

When M.Ripudaman Singh clashed with M.Bhupinder Singh of Patiala over land boundaries, money, women and status the dispute span into series of court battles that saw Bhupinder petitioning the British and Ripudaman drawing support from the Sikh establishment. Ripudaman lost...

In 1923 Ripudaman was forced into exile to Dehra Dun where his religiosity increased as did British anxiety about his potential for sedition. In 1927 he changed his name to Gurcharan Singh after taking initiation into the Khalsa, a year later he was stripped of his titles ....

..and exiled to Kodiakanal in Tamil Nadu. Nabha was ruled by his son, whose formal title was'Colonel His Highness Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Sir Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha, KCSI

Maharaja Ripudaman Singh (now simply Sardar Gurcharan Singh) died in Kodiakanal in 1942, he had married three times and had multiple children.