Letter to BS: The man who built Bikaner House is integral to its story

Singh was also an outright autocrat and a believer in the indispensability of the princely order in the Indian set-up

With reference to “Commoners and Kings” (April 14), the story of Bikaner House would not be complete without the man who built it—Sir Ganga Singh, Bikaner’s then Maharaja and one of the most outstanding members of the princely order. He was outstanding because of his attainments in his state as also his leadership of the princely fraternity. He built the Gang canal that brought waters of the Sutlej from Ferozepur, Punjab, to his state, creating an oasis, a granary in a part of the Thar Desert. As a leader of the princely order he was the founder chancellor of the