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CLOSURE OF A ROYAL MESS WHEN? OVER WHAT? WHAT’S LAXMI VILAS PALACE? The family feud Ancestral property — palaces, Built in 1890 by Sayajirao Gaekwad III and began in 1990 gold, diamonds and other designed by architectMajorCharles Mant, it’s a jewellery, paintings (worth magnificent building of the Indo-Saracenic school AMONG WHOM? hundreds of crores of rupees) Samarjitsinh Four times the size of Buckingham Palace, it is the and real estate. The centre of the largest private property built till date Gaekwad, his uncle dispute was Lakshmi Vilas Palace Sangramsinh At the time of construction, it was among the few Gaekwad, and other THEIR WORTH TODAY? Indian buildings with elevators; its interior is family members ~20,000 cr reminiscent of a large European country house THE GAEKWAD FAMILY TREE AND WHO GOT WHAT IN THURSDAY’S SETTLEMENT Sayajirao Gaekwad III Bajubai Putlabai Fatehsinhrao Jaisinhrao Shivajirao Indiradevi Dhairyashilrao Malharrao Pratapsinh (& 2 daughters) Khanderao Fatehsinhrao Mrunalini Premila Sarla Vasundharadevi Ranjitsinh Lalitadevi Sangramsinh Sayajirao Raje Raje Raje Raje Pratapsinh Raje Samarjitsinh Alaukika Anjana Pratapsinhrao Priyadarshini Raje Raje Raje RANJITSINH GAEKWAD'S FAMILY SANGRAMSINH GAEKWAD’S FAMILY LED BY SAMARJITSINH Indumati palace, Ashok Bungalow, Bakul Bungalow Lakshmi Vilas Palace and and Makarpura Mankari Bungalow in Vadodara 600 acres around it Land in Sundarpura sanctuary, near Vadodara Exquisite paintings, 55 acres around Lakshmi Vilas Palace including Raja Ravi Varma’s works Properties owned underAlaukik Trading Company — Nazarbaug Royal gold & silver jewellery, diamonds palace, Baroda Rayon, etc Temple trusts run by the family Prime properties in Mumbai — Vadodara’s Kalabhavan, Chateau Windsor, exhibition ground Flowermead Mehrangarh Building, etc Bungalow in Mumbai’s Juhu area.

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