In a little-known story linking the two countries, Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja sheltered Polish children evacuated from Siberia where they were deported by the Soviet Union when war broke out.
The Indian leader, accompanied by families of some of the children saved, laid flowers at a red-marble monument crowned with a lotus sculpture, built in honour of the maharaja in the Polish capital.
"For all the children in the camp, the maharaja was a substitute father," Agnieszka Michalowska, daughter of the late Wieslaw Stypula... Читать дальше...