mr.chavan with all due respect to your views..i think jaipur is one the leading examples of indian royalty in the world... the problems regarding succession always occured and will always occur... but in the light of the great or rather legendary maharaja Bhawani singh of jaipur.. i think we are being unfair if we condemn his legacy.. with due respect siddhartha singh of kapurthala >From: akshay chavan <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [INDIA-ROYALTY] Kolhapur Succession >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:51:25 -0800 (PST) > > In my previous post on jaipur >succession i had written about how maharaja of jaipur >defied every convention and adopted his grandson. Well >he was not alone. > A new incident has come to light which I >was unaware of in 1960's(I was not born then) . >Maharaja of kolhapur who himself had been adopted from >dewas gaddi decided to adopt his grandson from >shaliniraje. the dewas adoption was itself very >unpopular. Now there were massive street protests. >Most marathas favoured the claim of son of princess >padmaraje kadam bande of torkhed . He had stronger >claim to the gaddi . But kolhapur raja ignored it and >adopted his grandson. Today as a result there is not >respect left for house of kolhapur .Most marathas >including myself have disowned the royal family. And >raja has no legitimacy only palaces. > >*/Princess padmaraje died in 1999. She was daughter of >Chhatrapati rajaram of kolhapur./* > > I appears to me jaipur is moving in same >direction. I dont think anyone respects jaipur gaddi >anymore. Thanks to antics of the maharaja and his son >in law. > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster >http://search.yahoo.com > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Xerox Multifunction devices that print,copy,scan and fax. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/44797.asp Get affordable printing solutions that fit your needs .

--- yuvraj singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > mr.chavan > with all due respect to your views..i think jaipur > is one the leading > examples > of indian royalty in the world... > the problems regarding succession always occured and > will always occur... > but in the light of the great or rather legendary > maharaja Bhawani singh of > jaipur.. > i think we are being unfair if we condemn his > legacy.. > > with due respect > siddhartha singh of kapurthala > > >From: akshay chavan <[email protected]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [INDIA-ROYALTY] Kolhapur Succession > >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:51:25 -0800 (PST) > > > > In my previous post on jaipur > >succession i had written about how maharaja of > jaipur > >defied every convention and adopted his grandson. > Well > >he was not alone. > > A new incident has come to light > which I > >was unaware of in 1960's(I was not born then) . > >Maharaja of kolhapur who himself had been adopted > from > >dewas gaddi decided to adopt his grandson from > >shaliniraje. the dewas adoption was itself very > >unpopular. Now there were massive street protests. > >Most marathas favoured the claim of son of princess > >padmaraje kadam bande of torkhed . He had stronger > >claim to the gaddi . But kolhapur raja ignored it > and > >adopted his grandson. Today as a result there is > not > >respect left for house of kolhapur .Most marathas > >including myself have disowned the royal family. > And > >raja has no legitimacy only palaces. > > > >*/Princess padmaraje died in 1999. She was daughter > of > >Chhatrapati rajaram of kolhapur./* > > > > I appears to me jaipur is moving in > same > >direction. I dont think anyone respects jaipur > gaddi > >anymore. Thanks to antics of the maharaja and his > son > >in law. > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster > >http://search.yahoo.com > > > > > >============================== > >Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Xerox Multifunction devices�that print,copy,scan and > fax. > http://go.msnserver.com/IN/44797.asp Get affordable > printing solutions that > fit your needs . > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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