Jadejiji Kesar Kanwarji d.of HH Maharao Khengarji III of Kutch State Colonel HH Maharajadhiraj Shri Maharaja Mahim Mahendra Maharao Raja Sir Umaid Singh II (15 September 1873 – 27 December 1940) was the 18th Hada Chauhan ruler of the Princely State of Kotah from the year 1889 to 1940.

[citation needed] The great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Rao Kishor Singh I, a Raja of Kota, Sir Umed Singhji was adopted at a young age by HH Maharao Raja Shatru Sal Singh II the then childless ruler of the state.

Following his death in the year 1889, Umed Singhji (Udai Singh, as he was then named) embarked on a long and distinguished career as a soldier and statesman, being educated at Mayo College in Ajmer.

[1][2] He died in 1940, aged 67, after an illustrious reign of 52 years, and was succeeded by his only son, Maharao Raja Sir Bhim Singhji II.

In 2011, his 1925 Phantom I Rolls-Royce, customised with mounted guns and searchlights for tiger hunting, came up for auction in the US.