Word: sayaji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. His Highness, Maharaja Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, 75, one of the richest men in the world (annual income reputed to be $10,000,000). one of five native princes entitled to a salute of 21 guns; in Bombay, India. A progressive Indian potentate, first (33 years ago) to make primary eduation compulsory and lately to permit divorce, the Gaekwar amazed his Hindus by building a mosque for Mohammedans, amazed both sects by sitting down with untouchables...
...Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...
...distinguished visitor was "the seventh richest man in the world," the temporal and spiritual head of nearly 2,500,000 Hindus and Moslems-His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first...
...coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
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