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Ruler and Statesman. The Maharaja was regarded as a progressive ruler, who promoted water supplies, railways, hospitals and schools in Bikaner (Rajputana), as well as a representative assembly in 1913. He put the resources of his state at Britain's disposal in 1914, and himself served in France and Egypt. He was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet and a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles (1919). The first Chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes from 1921 to 1926, he attended the Round Table Conferences in London in 1930–1931, but his role, like that of other princes in the sub-continent, was to become an anachronism as a new urban, educated middle class strove for independence.

National Portrait Gallery, London

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Title

Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner

Date

1919

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

4188

Acquisition method

Given by wish of Viscount Wakefield, 1960

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

William Orpen

1878–1931

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