The Archive · 1936

Young Maharajah Invested

Gwalior, Nov, 2.

Amid brilliant pageantry, the Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Linlithgow, to-day invested the 21- year-old Maharajah of Gwalior, who Was named after King George, with ruling powers over 26,000. square miles of one of the most picturesque of, the Indian States, One of the frst acts of the new ruler. was to announce the remission of £450,000 of arrears in agricultural revenue and the provision £750,000 for rural improvement, Cel lens of the. occasion" me.) eluded tate benguet, fireworks, Mluminatto and a review of troops,

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