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...Martandam news spread, other states wanted advice from Double-Your-Money Hatch. He helped set up reconstruction centers in Baroda and Hyderabad, preached the twin gospel of literacy and progress for hundreds of miles. In 1940, Hatch and his family returned to the U.S. for a vacation. When the war made it doubtful that he could transport the family to India again, he carried on his work in Mexico. Last year he went back to India...
...born. But even as a boy, Bhimrao had other plans. Supporting himself as a hamal (one who cleans floors and bathrooms), he worked his way through the village school, won a scholarship for college in Bombay, where reports of his intelligence reached the ears of the benevolent Gaekwar of Baroda. The Gaekwar sent him to the U.S. for two years' study at Columbia University...
...Maharaja of Baroda, 41, was short of cash. Up for sale went his plane: a silver-painted, twin-engined Dakota with a day cabin, night cabin, cocktail bar and cream-colored kitchen. The Maharaja's friends said that he had been watching his budget ever since his 8,164-square-mile state pensioned him at $532,000 a year eight months ago when it joined Bombay. There were also "For Sale" signs on all three of his houses in England...
...India, things were not going at all well for the Maharaja of Baroda. His 250 servants went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition...
Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...