Raja Awadhesh Singh was ruler of Kalakankar princely state of Oudh of British India, succeeded by Raja Ramesh Singh. Kalakankar is presently a village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. Raja Awadhesh met Mahatma Gandhi during his visit of Kalakankar on 14 November 1929. His elder brother Kunwar Suresh Singh was close to poet Sumitranandan Pant as well as associated with Mahatma Gandhi and took active participation in Gandhi’s movement