Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
(1872-1933), Indian ruler and cricketerSitter in 20 portraits
Prince Ranji, as he was popularly known was educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot in India and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he first seriously took up cricket and received his 'Blue'. He joined the Sussex team in l895 and played for England against Australia, scoring eventually 24,000 runs in his first class cricket career (Punch dubbed him 'Run-Get-Sinjhi'). He succeeded his cousin in 1906 as Maharaja and did much to develop and rebuild Nawanagar. In World War One Ranji raised troops and served at the Front (1914-15). He twice represented the ruling Princes of India at League of Nations, was a delegate at the 1930 Round Table Conference and helped found the Chamber of Princes (1921) of which he became Chancellor in 1932.
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by (Karl Anton) Reinhold Thiele
silver printing-out paper print, late 1890s
NPG P731
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by (Karl Anton) Reinhold Thiele
postcard print, circa 1900
NPG x200578
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by (Karl Anton) Reinhold Thiele, published by Ogden's
cigarette card, published circa 1901
NPG x136683
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Unknown photographer
postcard print, 1903-1904
NPG x200579
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Ernest Clarence Elliott, for Elliott & Fry
collotype, published 1904
NPG Ax39987
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87188
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 12 January 1915
NPG x74761
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 12 January 1915
NPG x74762
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar and friends
by Vandyk
glass negative, 7June 1915
NPG x130047
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 12 January 1915
NPG x74758
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Lafayette
watercolour on ivory, 1920
NPG x133159
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar ('Men of the Day. No. 689.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 26 August 1897
NPG D44870
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87187
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87189
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87190
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87191
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87192
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
glass negative, 11 November 1912
NPG x87193
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 12 January 1915
NPG x74759
Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 12 January 1915
NPG x74760
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