Which king has the most wives in India?

According to Diwan Jarmani Das, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh had 83 children from ten wives out of which only 53 were able to survive. The king had also built a 'swimming pool' outside the palace. The pool is so large that 150 men and women can take a bath together. There used to be great parties here.
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Which king has most wives?

King Mswati III: Meet King Mswati III of Swaziland, the 50-year-old monarch who has 15 wives and 23 children - The Economic Times.
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Who has the most wives in Indian history?

Indian politicians court man with 'world's biggest family:' 39 wives, 127 offspring. At last count, Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. They all live with him in his 100-room, four-story house perched among the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
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Which Indian king had only one wife?

The Peshwa king Madhav Rao Peshwa is one of the few rulers of Maharashtra , who had only one wife till he died . Her name was Ramabai Peshwe .
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Who have more wife in India?

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more.
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Can a Hindu have 2 wives?

Legal developments

Thus polygamy became illegal in India in 1956, uniformly for all of its citizens except for Muslims, who are permitted to have four wives and for Hindus in Goa and along the western coast where bigamy is legal. A polygamous Hindu marriage is null and void.
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Who has the most husbands in history?

Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
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Who had 100 wives?

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
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Who has most wives in the world?

Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family. Rest in Peace Sir! And Chana's extrordinary life has grabbed several headlines over the years.
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Who was the most brutal King of India?

Ten Cruel Indian Rulers
  • Firuz Shah Tughlaq. As the head of the Tughlaq dynasty, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ruled over the Sultanate of Delhi for 37 years from 1351 to 1388. ...
  • Pushyamitra Shunga. ...
  • Mihirakula. ...
  • Alauddin Khilji. ...
  • Ashoka. ...
  • Tipu Sultan. ...
  • Aurangzeb. ...
  • Shah Jahan.
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Did Rajputs have many wives?

It is said that Rawal Bapa married 140 women altogether. This may have been an exaggeration but portrays a picture of unlimited number of wives that elite Rajputs could possess. Genealogies of the period reveal how the custom functioned as an index of a rulers' status.
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Who is the biggest family in India?

Ziona Chana had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - all of whom lived together in a four-storey pink house with about 100 rooms in Baktawng in Mizoram state.
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Which Mughal emperor had most wives?

Mughal emperors from Babur to Akbar are considered to be quite religious and efficient rulers but Shah Jahan, the heir of the same Mughalia Sultanate, is considered a ruler with luxuriant and perverted sexual desires, in addition to the thirteen wives of Shah Jahan who had 8000 women in his harem.
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Which King had the most mistresses?

King Charles II was famous for his womanising, having more mistresses than any other monarch during his reign.
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How many wives Mughal had?

Portraits of Sixteen wives of Mughal Emperors are shown; they are set in oval frames and arranged around an image of the Diwani Khas–the private audience hall in the Delhi Red Fort.
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How many wives can you have in India?

Under Indian law, a person cannot marry or keep two wives at the same time. Such practice is illegal and liable to punishment. Thus, there cannot be a specific one definite answer to whether polygamy legal in India or not.
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What celebrity has the most divorces?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

She first married Turkish political writer Burhan Asaf Belge is 1937, divorcing him in 1941. Her next marriage was to hotelier Conrad Hilton, which lasted five years.
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Can you have 2 wives in America?

Polygamy is illegal and criminalized in every country in North and South America, including all 50 U.S. states. However, in February 2020, the Utah House and Senate reduced the punishment for consensual polygamy, which had previously been classified as a felony, to roughly equivalent to a traffic ticket.
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Who is the world's biggest family?

The Chanas

Ziona Chana, formerly the head of the world's largest family, passed away aged 76 in June, leaving behind a clan of 181 members. Due to his polygamous lifestyle, this included 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandkids.
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Why did Indian kings have many wives?

Several reasons. Infant mortality was much higher. So having more babies with more wives insured that you had surviving heirs. Having more wives was looked upon as a sign that you were wealthy and manly - you could afford to have a large family, and “take care” of many women.
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Who is the king of 365 Queens?

Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh, GCSI GCIE GCVO GBE (12 October 1891 – 23 March 1938) was an Indian royal and cricket player. He was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala in British India from 1900 to 1938.
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What is the world's shortest marriage?

A couple in Kuwait reportedly got divorced after just three minutes in Kuwait last month, in what is believed to be the shortest marriage on record. The couple hadn't even left the courthouse where their nuptials had taken place when the woman tripped over and fell.
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Who was married 7 times?

Richard Pryor

The comedian made it to the altar seven times, marrying and re-marrying a few of his exes. He was first married to Patricia Price in 1961, though the union only lasted one year. In 1967, he married Shelley Bonis, but they divorced in 1969.
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What is the longest marriage?

The longest marriage ever was enjoyed by Herbert Fisher (USA, b. 1905) and Zelmyra Fisher (USA, b. 1907). The couple had been married for 86 years 290 days as of 27 February 2011, when Mr Fisher passed away.
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Is it legal to marry your sister?

Section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act bans, among other things, marriage between a brother and sister, uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, or children of brother and sister or of two brothers or of two sisters. The marriage is void, unless the custom of the community permits it.
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