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DEVARE & CO. : BOMBAY (FL.1912)

Memorial Garden: The Maharajah of Kolhapur's Album

c.1912

RCIN 2702171

Thousands of memorial statues of members of the British royal family were erected across India in the early twentieth century. Sir Shahu Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur, presented this album to King George V. It contains photographs of tribute busts of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, King George V, Queen Mary, and the Duke and Duchess of Connaught which he erected in the grounds of his palace.

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