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...Gaekwar of Baroda, gem-collecting Indian ruler of some 3,000,000 souls, arrived in Manhattan with wife & child for an American outing, promptly inquired about the availability of bodyguards (he was familiar with the Lindbergh case, he explained), made it safely to the Waldorf-Astoria under cover of four detectives...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, 36, plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
Sitadevi embraced Mohammedanism, got a divorce. She and her suitor sped to Bombay at New Year's, married quietly after Sitadevi had resumed her Hindu faith. In Baroda, the Gaekwar's subjects talked of asking him to abdicate...
Until last month, Baroda was a model among Indian states. The old Maharaja, the late great Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, put through more social legislation than any other native prince could boast. He made his grandson and heir, 35-year-old Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar, study statecraft from childhood, taught him to admire progress and respect...
Soon after he ascended the throne in 1939 the young Maharaja approved a bill outlawing polygamy. With his Maharani, Shantadevi, and their eight children, he lived quietly in Baroda. Then the Gaekwar met a lissome young beauty named Sitadevi at a race track in Madras. Between them stood 1) Baroda's hard-won reputation; 2) the fact that Sitadevi, a Hindu, was already married, could not be divorced under Hindu...