AN INDIAN ROMANCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1768, 26 July 1888, Page 3

AN INDIAN ROMANCE.

The Guikwar of Baroda, who visited Great Britain last year, contemplates another trip to England. While in that country last year he stayed a long time at Brighton, where he spent a great deal of money, and the Brighton people are hoping that he will take up his quarters in their town again. The real reason for the Guikwar travelling about so much is that he has lately developed strong symtoms of insanity, and the physicians think it advisable for him to have plenty of change. This young prince has had a somewhat romantic history. When the former Guikwar was deposed there was some difficulty in finding the next heir. He was at length discovered in the form of a ragged little lad of twelve years of age, tending cattle in an obscure Indian village. He belonged to the Baroda Royal race, but his relationship to the reigning monarch was so remote that it had been forgotten until the Indian genealogists traced it, and his family had long sunk into poverty. He was taken up by the English Government, and educated with a view to the position he was called upon to occupy, and has hitherto made a very good manarch. Ee was married some years ago, and, in accordance with Baroda customs, the wedding took place in a stable. The word Guikwar means shepherd.