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The Good Maharaja

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If you're roaming around in a beautiful European country Poland then possibly you'll come across a city square named "Good Maharaja Square" ,  You'll also come across multiple streets , public Parks and schools named after Maharaja Digvijaysingh Jadeja , The Jamsahab of Nawanagar. Nawanagar was the small kathiyawari princely state of Gujarat in colonial India. This generation of Indians may know about the activities of many freedom fighters, great persons like scientists, economists and others who time to time contributed for the development of the country and sacrificed their life for freedom of fellow Indians but there were many other Indians who significantly also contributed for humanity without considering caste, religion or nationality. One such name is Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, the Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. The story is all set to come a full circle. In the 1940s, When Hitler invaded Poland which was the part of USSR and started the second