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Second most important native potentate in India (after the Nizam of Hyderabad) is the Maharaja of Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
...Gandhi's Indian National Congress party which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps...
...Maharaja of Nawanagar, in western India, promised a tenth of his annual revenue of $3,400,000, was politely put off when he asked to be allowed personally to fight the Germans...
...year-old, crippled Maharaja of Udaipur became so passionately pro-British that at first he offered his entire kingdom and resources, later was content to grant $28,000 in a lump and $19,000 annually...
...Maharaja of Indore, reported to be building a Beverly Hills, Calif., palace for his new U. S.-born wife, dug up $150,000 for the Empire cause...