Brigadier Padma Bhushan Rao Bahadur Rao Raja Shri Hanut Singh (20 March 1900 - 12 October 1982) was a British Indian Army soldier and polo player.
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Hanut Singh was born at Jodhpur on 20 March 1900, the third son of a junior wife of Sir Pratap Singh of Idar. He was educated at Mayo College in Ajmer and at Eastbourne College in Sussex, as well as at L'Ecole de Cavalerie in France. He served as a Page of Honour to George V at the 1911 Delhi Durbar He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Jodhpur State Forces in 1914 and commissioned in the British Army in 1916.
During the First World War, Hanut Singh served with his father in France, Palestine and Syria. He was present at the taking of Haifa and at the fall of Aleppo in 1918. He served in the Egyptian Rebellion of 1919 and was promoted to a captaincy in the British Indian Army in 1921.
Until his father's death in 1922, Hanut Singh served as his private secretary. From 1923-1925, he served as Comptroller of the Royal Household of Jodhpur, then as Officer of the Royal Stables until 1933, when he was promoted to Comptroller of the Royal Stables. In 1934, he was promoted to the rank of Major in the Jodhpur State Forces. He was awarded the title of Rao Bahadur in 1937. In 1941, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and became the Military Secretary for Jodhpur, serving until 1948. Hanut Singh was promoted to Colonel in 1946 and to Brigadier in 1947. An outstanding polo player, he played many games for Jodhpur. Later he fielded his own team-the Ratanada team.
From 1949 to 1951, Hanut Singh served as the Minister for Health, Medical and Jails Departments for Rajasthan. In 1958, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his achievements and contributions to the game of polo, also receiving the Arjuna Award in 1964. He died at Jodhpur on 12 October 1982, aged 82. He left three sons.