[1][2] When his uncle, Duleep Singh, was deposed by the East India Company on 29 March 1849 and sent to reside at Fategarh on 21 December 1849, Shahdeo, along with her mother, accompanied him at the age of five.

He settled in Raebareli, Awadh in October 1861, where the British Government granted him a hereditary jagir and pension.

[8][9] He held the Taluqdari estates of Pandri Ganeshpur, Behta, and Gokalpur, which comprised 18 villages and 3 pattis in Raebareli.

[10] Pandri Ganeshpur originally formed part of the confiscated estate of Rana Beni Madho, the chieftain of Shankarpur.

[10] In 1860, he married the daughter of Sardar Fateh Singh, a jagirdar of Suga in Thanesar.