RANJI AS RAJAH.
I Great Cricketer's Likely Role. 1 (Received 8.51 a-m.) ,: LONDON, August 17. •ilie Jam Saheb, or Rajah, of Navana_tr; v"hose father adopted Prince. Kumar .-..Qui naajitsinhji, the famous Sussex Itricketer, has died without an heir, and J there is a possibility that Prince RanjitJtdnhji will succeed to the title and king--3 ten. I [The Jam of Navanagar is the ruler of "191 square miles, carrying a population of 336,779. in the Kathiawar Peninsula it the Bombay Presidency. The Jam, rtois just dead, only lived to be 23 years •'• sf age and succeeded his father in 1595. the famous cricketer has always been .; tecribed as the son of the earlier ruler, I tat apparently this has been a mistake.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 197, 18 August 1906, Page 5
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