File:Sardar after inaugrating Rajasthan.jpg

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Sardar Patel leaving the Durbar Hall after inaugurating the Rajasthan Union. On the right is the Maharajah of Jaipur, on the left the Maharajah of Kotah.

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Late 1940s.

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Extracted from The Story of Integration of the Indian States by V. P. Menon.

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