Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Sayaji Rao III, Maharaja of Baroda NPG x34594

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Vandyk

The illiterate son of a village headman, he travelled from Kavlana with his family after widow Maharani Jamnabai, who had no male heir of her own, summoned the heads of the extended Gaekwad dynasty to present themselves and their boys to find a successor to the throne. When Gopalrao was quizzed about why he had come he replied 'I have come here to rule'. He was chosen as the next Maharaja of Baroda with the British Government's approval. Due to his young age of twelve,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.