MAHARAJA IN EXILE.
INDIAN PRINCE IN LONDON. BANISHED FOR TWO YEARS. Banished from his State for two years by order of the Government of India, t His Highness Shri * Sewai Maharaj Raj Rishi Dey of Alwar, arrived in London last month. He took with him a case labelled "rules, reference books and speeches," and over 200 trunks and packages. All these were hastily packed in the 48 hours which the Viceroy of India gave the Maharaja to leave his State. The object of the maharaja's visit was to state his case to the British Government, and he intended to seek to interview Sir Samuel Hoare, Secreary of State for India, and Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary. The exiled ruler was received at Victoria Station on his arrival in London by Colonel ,S.B.A. Paterson, political A.D.C. to the India Office. He wore a plum-coloured suit, a brown velvet beretta, and a soft collar with a blue amber and black striped tie.
The maharaj a is the Hindu ruler of a Moslem State, and contends that the recent uprisings of his people are not directed against him personally, but are in accordance with a Mohammedan conspiracy to unite the whole of Northern India against the Hindus. The Government of India holds that the treasury of the State of Alwar is empty and that the revolutionary uprisings of the maharaja's people are due to the overtaxing of his subjects. "The Government of India's policy," to quote its definition of paramountcy, "is, with rare exceptions, one of noninterference in the internal affairs of native States. But in guaranteeing the internal independence of these States and undertaking their protection against external aggression, the Imperiol Government has assumed a certain degree of responsibility for the general soundness of the chief's administration and cannot' incur the reproach of being an indirect instrument of misrule."
It is in pursuance of this last clause that the Government of India has stepped in to reorganise the administration of the State of Alwar.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 7
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