Udai Singh of Pratapgarh
{{Short description|Regent of Dungarpur from 1825 to 1852 and Maharawat of Pratapgarh from 1844 to 1864}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Udai Singh
| title = Maharawat
| succession = Maharawat of Pratapgarh
| reign = 1864 – 1890
| coronation = 1864
| predecessor = Dalpat Singh
| successor = Raghunath Singh
| birth_date = 1848
| death_date = 1890
| spouse = Swarup Kunverba
| house = {{flagicon image|Royal_flag_of_Partabgarh.svg}} Pratapgarh
| father = Raghunath Singh
| investiture = 1865
| dynasty = Sisodia
}}
Udai Singh was Maharawat of Pratapgarh from 1864 until his death in 1890.
Reign
When his father, Dalpat Singh, died in 1864, he succeeded him as Maharawat of Pratapgarh.{{Cite book |last=Purushotam Vishram Mawjee |url=https://archive.org/details/DurbarAlbum1/ |title=(1911) Imperial durbar album of the Indian princes, chiefs and zamindars, Vol. I. |date=1911 |pages=95}} He was invested with full administrative powers in 1865.{{Cite book |last=Sehgal |first=K. k |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146807/ |title=Rajasthan Distict Gazetteers Chittaurgarh |date=1961 |pages=49}} He greatly improved the law and order situation in his state and established regular courts. He made many changes in Pratapgarh town and permanently established the capital of the state there.{{Cite book |last=Rai Bahadur |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.545844/ |title=Pratapgarh Rajya Ka Itihas |date=2000 |pages=299}} During the Rajputana famine of 1869, he opened poorhouses and fair-price shops, initiated relief works to aid his suffering subjects, and granted land revenue remissions.
Death
He died on 15 February 1890.{{Cite book |last=Aitchison |first=C. U. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34580/ |title=A Collection Of Treaties, Engagements And Sunnuds |date=1909 |pages=24}} As he died without a legitimate successor, his widow, Swarup Kunverba,{{Cite book |last=Hooja |first=Rima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ |title=A History of Rajasthan |date=2006 |publisher=Rupa & Company |isbn=978-81-291-0890-6 |pages=825 |language=en}} adopted Raghunath Singh, his third cousin and closest surviving relative, who succeeded him as the Maharawat of Pratapgarh.{{Cite book |last=Bayley |first=C. S. |url=https://archive.org/details/chiefsleadingfam00csba/ |title=Chiefs and leading families in Rajputana |date=2004 |publisher=New Delhi : Asian Educational Services |others=Public Resource |isbn=978-81-206-1066-8 |pages=44–45}}{{Cite book |last=Hendley |first=T. H. |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.413/ |title=Rulers in India |date=1897 |pages=40 |language=English}}