Hanut Singh

Rao Raja Hanut Singh was a British Indian Army soldier and polo player, born at Jodhpur on 20 March 1900 as the third son of Sir Pratap Singh of Idar. He was educated at Mayo College in Ajmer, at Eastbourne College in Sussex and at the Saumur Cavalry School in France, and in the First World War he served in France, Palestine and Syria with the Jodhpur Lancers. Later he held court posts at Jodhpur and rose to brigadier in 1947. An outstanding polo player, he played and won many games for Jodhpur and then fielded his own team, Ratanada, with two of his sons; it won almost every tournament in India for many years. He died on 12 October 1982.