Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brigadier Sawai Bhawani Singh Bahadur, MVC was the Maharaja of Jaipur and head of the Kachwaha clan of Rajputs. He died at age 79 due to multi-organ failure. The title technically ended in 1971 when royal entitlements were abolished along with privy purses through a constitutional amendment. However, the erstwhile Maharaja was considered a political, cultural, and religious icon in modern Rajasthan, and he was sometimes referred to in the media as His Highness, The Maharaja of Jaipur. Born to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II and his first wife, Marudhar Kanwar of Jodhpur, Sawai was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun, and later Harrow School. As the first male heir born to a reigning Maharaja of Jaipur for generations, his birth was a celebrated event in Jaipur, where the fountains of the royal palaces flowed with champagne in his honor giving him the nickname Bubbles