Baroda maharaja’s defiant gesture at Delhi Durbar that rattled the British
An artist’s work captures the moment when Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad (dressed in white) turned his back on King George V at Delhi Durbar in 1911 Vadodara: Thirty-five years before India won independence, a maharaja turned his back on the British monarch — quite literally — in an act of defiance that would become part of…