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Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
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Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar
by Vandyk
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 12 January 1915
12in. x 10in. (304.8 mm x 254 mm)
Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x74761
Sitterback to top
- Ranjitsinhji ('Ranji') Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Navanagar (1872-1933), Indian ruler and cricketer. Sitter in 20 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Vandyk (active 1881-1947), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 662 portraits.
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Current affairs
The Times Newspaper reports that Britain's Army is suffering from a lack of Ammunition Shells, pointing the finger of blame at the Liberal government. The Shell Scandal forced Asquith to form a new coalition government, bringing Conservatives into the cabinet and demonstrating the need to gear the whole country's economy towards the war effort.Art and science
As the threat from aerial attack increased, the decision was made to protect the national art collections by storing them in basements or in locations outside London. On 15th October the National Portrait Gallery under the directorship of Sir Charles John Holmes closed its doors to the public and removed paintings from the walls.International
Stalemate ensues on the Western Front and trench warfare begins as both sides take up defensive positions. While offensive strategies become futile, serious loss of life occurs with the first deployment of tanks and the use of poison gas.Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity, a model of gravitation and cosmology.
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Sean Scholfield
30 January 2016, 10:42
Regarded as an all time cricketing great with fast reaction, unorthodox back stepper. Played for Sussex. Keen huntsman, shot in the eye on a grouse shoot at Langdale. Ruthless at times in suppression of riotous villagers in his home state, but a progressive. He was keen to serve in the Great War, but Indian princes were not allowed too near to the front. He was invalided as were several hundreds of Indian troops with the effects of severe weather. Financially unreliable, he was litigated against on several occasions. He was partly responsible for the Italian withdrawal from Corfu in 1923.