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[b]Nawanagar Royals[/b]

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[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Young Maharajah Satrushalyasinhji of Nawanagar [/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Jam Saheb[/font][/color]

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Maharani Gayathri Devi
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[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Once listed by Vogue as one of the world's most beautiful women, Devi has been the most enduring symbol of Indian royalty since she became Maharajah Man Singh's third wife in 1939.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]She soon became a fixture in London society, widely admired for her graceful style, glamorous saris, and sense of adventure. She and her husband entertained the British royals on Tiger hunting trips in Rajasthan and lived between the casinos of Monte Carlo, London high society and their palace in Jaipur. She attributed her distinctive style to her mother, who she said was the first Indian woman to wear chiffon saris. "Style comes naturally to me. I guess, you're just born with it," she once said.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Devi was born in London in 1919 into the Indian royal family of Cooch Behar, whose women were known for their fierce independence. Her grandmother had defied the tradition of purdah and moved into public life, her mother refused an arranged marriage and married a man she loved, while Devi herself challenged the most powerful Indian woman of the 20th Century, Indira Gandhi.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Devi stood against Gandhi's Congress Party in the 1960s and made an enemy of Nehru's daughter when she won what was then a world record majority. Mrs Gandhi retaliated by scrapping all remaining privileges of the Indian royals and Devi was later jailed for five months on tax charges.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]More recently she was involved in a bitter feud with her only two grandchildren in an attempt to disinherit them from her son's estimated £400 million estate.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]She recently told The Times of India she had no regrets and that her happiest memories were from her childhood in Cooch Behar.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]"Those were days of innocence. When I read comics like Tiger Tim and Puck. When I'd go shooting, I would plead with the mahout to let me sit on the neck of the elephant. There I used to lie down, my head between the elephant's ears. At dusk, I would come home riding on my elephant. When I remember this moment, it takes me back to a time when my life was untouched by change and the loss of people dearest to me," she said[/font][/color]

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Temple of Ramnagar near varanasi - 1890

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Temple of Ramnagar near varanasi - 1860's
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Kondapalli Durgam (Krishna District)- [color=#000000][font=sans-serif][size=3]1898[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Pearl Carpet of Baroda[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]The famed Pearl Carpet of Baroda has become world's most expensive carpet beating the record of a silk Persian rug, sold March 19 2009. It has also set the record of a work sold at auction in the Middle East.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Sotheby's First-Ever International Auction Series in the Middle East realized $18,001,725 (including buyer's premium). A rare Safavid Silk Velvet Panel from 17th century Iran sparked a bidding battle and was sold for nearly ten times the estimate. The Pearl carpet fetched $4.8m ($5,458,500 including buyer's premium) breaking the world record.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Embroidered with as many as one-and-a-half million of the fabled ‘Basra’ pearls, harvested in the southern Gulf region and along the coasts of Qatar and Bahrain, the bejewelled masterpiece is traditionally believed to have been created as a gift for the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia and was commissioned by the Maharaja of Baroda, “Gaekwar” Kande Rao,.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]The intended gift was clearly never delivered as the Maharaja died before he made the donation and the carpet therefore remained in his family collection for more than 100 years.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]The Pearl carpet broke the record held by a silk Isfahan carpet, Silk Safavid Carpet, which went under hammer for $4.45m at Christie's auction, last year.[/font][/color]

[color=#465584][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]At the Arts of the Islamic World session, a Safavid work, exhibited for the first time after having resurfaced from a private collection, went under hammer at $3,442,500m.[/font][/color]

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Wodeyar's of Mysore

[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Maharajah Sri Krishna Reja Wadiyar Bahadur -[/font][/color]
[font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif][color=#000000][size=3]At the time of his death, he was also one of the world's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated in 1940 to be worth $400 million which would be equivalent to $56 billion in 2010 prices[/size][/color][/font]
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[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Tahoma, Arial,]Sri Krishna Wadiyar Bahadur[/font][/color]

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Mysore -

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