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both in civil and military capacities.
He was wounded in the Tirah cam
paiSn of 1897 and was mentioned in
dispatches. He organized the Jodhpur
Lancers. and when a force was sent
from India in 1900 To the relief Of
the legations of Peking Sir Partial
accompanied these picked troops 10
Chlna- In recognition OF the wide
reaching reforms which he intro
duced into the administration of Jodh-
pur during the years when he was
Chlef Minister OF that state the Uni
versity Of Cambridge conferred upon
him the degree of IL D. From one
end OF the British Empire TO the other
Sir Partial Singh is known as a first
rate all around sportsman and as one
or the finest riders hat ever sat a
horse.
The most unifcent gift vet an
nounced from India for the aid Of
Great Britain in the present war is
that Of fifty lakhs of rupees (about
one million and a half d~ollars) from
the private purse of His Highness Sir
Kr~ishnaraja Wadayar Bahadur,
Maharajah of Mysore.
The M~aharajah of Mysore should be
of peculiar interest to Americans on
account of his liberal use Of articles
OF American manufacture. Mysore
has an area about equal to hat Of
South Carolina, and it's largest town,
~Bangalore, has more than one hun
dred thousand inhabitants. Mysore,
the political capital of the state, is
connected with Bangalore by a tele-
phone system installed by Americans,
while the whole of the electric light
ing Of the Maharajah's palaces at
these towns was designed and exc
cuted by the cOuntrymen of Edison.
The present Maharajah is just thir-
ty years old. He was carefully edu-
Gated by English and native tutors
under the general guidance of his
> father, the late Maharajah, whose en-
ightened rule earned for Mysore the
title of The Model State Of India"
In addition to the great interest the
: M~aharaJah shows in the education of
, his people he is very much alive to
5 the advantages to be derived from the
t scientific development of the
Of the country. There are a number
: Of industrial schools, as we'll as a
government agricultural farm and
dairy. Connected with the famous
e Kolar gold fields. the source of much
u of Mysore's wealth. is one of the most
e powerful hydro-electric plants in In
. dia, nearly all Of the machinery for
which came from Schenectady. N. Y.
No Indian ruler is better known in
z this country han the OF
/, BarOda. whose more or less full names
and titles are His Hishness the Ma
harajah Sir Sayail Rao Bahadur. He
e A0o tASllSu llc OIlllCO NCldlcS SCNCld
IS times and he confided his son to the
a educational influences Of : Harvard
e After two hundred years OF very
n stormy history the state Of Baroda
# which has a population Of about two
millions, or something less than. New
Jersey, has made great progress IN
der it's present head. The GaekWa
h is regarded as a model prince. II
d a provided his country with schools
hospitals. railroads., a female training
college, beautiful public buildings, {
museum and a public library, whil'
its capital possesses an excellent water
supply and a fine park system.
e A "Holy War; Most Unlikely.
8, A good deal has been written %
s. the danger to which the British En-
/ pire in India would be subject if tn
u. Mahommedans, numbering nearl.
,l seventy million people,, should SeiZ
the occasion Of Great Britain's pre-
70 occupation in Europe to declare 0
i join in the holy war against the inf
+ del. AS a matter Of fact no contin
gency could be more unlikely. A
~ the head Of the M~ahom,nedans of In
- dia is the Aga Khan, Sultan Mahom
re med Shah, who is accepted as q dlreC
W. descendant of the Prophet thrOug
o. his daughter Fatima. It is difficul
- to convey any adequate idea Of tn
which says to him, you may plar
nc profound Influence exerted by the Az
% Kaham as the spiritual head Of h
c~o-religionists. It is not too much /
- say that no Mahommedan in Indi
" would act against his counsel.
The mother Of the present Ag
he Nilan q q 80 ~ -
- not only received the highest rel
gious education that the Orient coul
supply but also a thoroughly sour
. training along the lines of Wester
civilization. sHe has traveled eXteI
sively and is a man of the highe'
-. personal character.
If anything were needed to eXplai
~ the devoted loyalty which the AS
~ Khan has always shown toward Bri
q ish rule in India it might be found
the fact that when his grandfath,
was - .ao. 49,,