TRAGIC INDIAN HUSBAND

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 354, 8 February 1937, Page 5

TRAGIC INDIAN HUSBAND

GRIEF FOR WIFE. SEEKING SOLITUDE. Widow Of Indian Princess Is Inconsolable. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) London, February 7. The Calcutta correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Rajkumar Prafulla Bhanjdeo, 31, widower, of the Maiharancel of the little State, of Bastar, is inconsolable owing to the death last year of his beautiful 26-year old wife. He is advertising for a large island where he desires to retire from the world./ The Maharanee succeeded her father wihen she was 12. She chose Prafulla as a husband when she was 17, although he was of a different social status from many priAcely suitors. They were ideally happy until she died in England, whence Prafulla re? turned and scattered the Mahararce’s ashes over B.astar from an

aeroplane. Prafulla, who formerly was a student at Cambridge University, repeatedly and fruitlessly applied to the Government, which administers Bastar, to be made Maharaaj. Meanwhile his six-year-old son has been declared ruler and Prafulla is refused access to his children.