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Rupa Publications India THE MAHARAJA OF BIKANER by Hugh Purcell
Dynamic, enigmatic and a spirited public figure, Ganga Singh (18801943), the twentyfirst maharaja of Rajasthan, was one of the last Indian princes to play an important role in the politics of the British Empire He lent his support to the British Army in both the World Wars by fighting on the Western Front and in Egypt A soldier in his own right, he commanded his own camel corps, the Ganga Risala, and became the first ever Indian general of the British Indian Army—a contribution that was rewarded by invitations to London for the Imperial War Conference in 1917 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1918, where he signed the iconic Treaty of Versailles