![]() ![]() The prince prayed to the royal family’s deity, Jagadamba. Writing about the events some five decades later, the late Apa Sahib Pant, son and heir of the raja of Aundh, recalled the state of alarm in the palace. Two days later, and with no sign of enthusiasm abating, the procession was camped just 5km outside the gates of Aundh. The procession accounted for more than 10% of the entire population of Atpadi taluka. These spies were entirely right to be alarmed. Intelligence officers working for the ruler of Aundh, Raja Bhawanrao Pant Pratinidhi, sent alarming reports of an angry crowd, led by fiery leaders, shouting revolutionary slogans. In the summer of that year, a procession of 6,000 peasants living in the town of Atpadi, in present-day Maharashtra, began marching the 160km to Aundh, the capital of their microscopic princely state. What if Nathuram Godse had missed? What if Gandhi had survived, and cast his immeasurable influence on the Constitution of India? The answers to some of these questions may lie in the unique events that transpired in a corner of Maharashtra in 1938.
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