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