FIVE NEW INDIAN KINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 1

FIVE NEW INDIAN KINGS

ONE WAS ONCE SHEPHERD BOY LONDON, February 10. Five new Kings will be created this year in the British Empire. One of them was once a shepherd boy. Another is the wealthiest man in the world. They arc live of the leading princes of India—the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Gackwar, of Baroda, the Maharajah of Kashmir, and the Maharajah of Gwalior —and they will bo made Kings of their States at the Imperial Durbar to be held in Delhi to celebrate the jubilee of King George. The elevation of Nepal to a kingdom created an anomaly, as it is a comparatively poor country, with a comparatively small population. The Nizam of Hyderabad is the ruler of India’s premier State. * He is the wealthiest man in the world, with a personal fortune estimated at about £100,000,000. Ho will be a king: of a vast territory with 14,000,000 subjects. Sixty-five years ago the then Gack-

war of Baroda was deposed, and the present ruler, a twelve-year-old shepherd boy of remote royal descent wnc found and officially adopted. The Maharajah of Kashmir rules a beautiful country, bordering on Russian, Chinese, and Afghanistan territory, in the extreme north of India, and therefore strategically important. As Sir Havi Singh he was “Mr A” of the notorious Robinson case in 1924, The Maharajah of Gwalior is the youngest of the new kings to be. He is eighteen. Prince George Rao, named after the King-Emperor. The Mararajah of Mysore is the filly-year-old ruler of India’s “ model State.”