Sukhdevsinhji

Rajkumar Shri Sukhdevsinhji Rajendrasinhji Jadeja (born 6 June 1936), known professionally as R. K. Sukhdevsinhji, is an Indian businessman and former cricketer. Sukhdevsinhji played a single first-class match for Baroda during the 1953–54 season, aged 17. His father, General maharajah Rajendrasinhji, was descended from the ruling family of Nawanagar State, and many other members of his family played cricket at high levels. Sukhdevsinhji later studied economics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and has held a variety of positions with companies in India's oil and gas sector, most notably as chairman of Bharat Petroleum.

Sukhdevsinhji's father, General Rajendrasinhji, was a high-ranking officer in the post-independence Indian Army, and was both the last Commander-in-Chief and the first Chief of the Army Staff. Descended from the Jam Sahibs of Nawanagar, his father's family were prominent in Sarodar (or Sadodar), a village in Nawanagar State on Gujarat's Kathiawar peninsula. The family gained prominence when Rajendrasinhji's uncle, Ranjitsinhji, succeeded a distant relation as Jam Sahib. Ranitsinhji had played Test cricket for England, and a number of other members of the family played first-class cricket, including a first cousin of Sukhdevsinhji, Vikramsinhji. As with his father and most other male members of his family, Sukhdevsinhji was schooled at the Rajkumar College in Rajkot.