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| Picture No | 10726265 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | The Maharajah of Mysore, WW1 |
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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV GCSI, GBE (June 4, 1884 – August 3, 1940, Bangalore Palace), also known popularly as Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar, the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore from 1902 until his death in 1940. He is regarded as one of the most celebrated rulers among the Indian States when India was still under British rule. At the time of his death, he was also one of the world's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated in 1940 to be worth $400 million which would be equivalent to $56 billion in 2010 prices. Pictured in The Sketch after he had donated fifty lakhs of rupees (worth about £330,000 at the time) at the disposal of the Indian Government for expenditure in connection with the Expeditionary Force. The money was used towards the cost of transporting the Indian Expeditionary Force.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 16 September 1914 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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