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Meanwhile, the Colonel developed a rampant gambling addiction that saw him losing princely sums at the gaming tables.

Months later, when Indian and Pakistani officials set about integrating hundreds of princely states into the new nations, the Arab states of the Gulf would be missing from the ledger.

The text becomes a straitjacket for a princely son who doesn’t seem accustomed to Shakespearean rigors.

"The idea is completely infeasible, a dead end. For decades, Indian maps have shown the entire territory of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as part of India," Sumantra Bose told the BBC.

Most of the arrested men were employed by the Indore princely state, had applied for leave around the same time and were in Bombay at the time of the crime.