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Sir Bhagvatsinhji GCSI GCIE FRSE FRCP was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, upon which he was honoured with 11-gun salutes.
He was the only Maharaja to take a medical degree and other degrees.
He was educated first at Rajkumar College, Rajkot. Later, he studied medicine and gained the M.B. degree at Edinburgh University, which, later on, conferred on him the degree of M.D. for a valuable thesis contributed by him to medical science. In 1892, the University of Oxford honoured him with the degree of D.C.L., while Edinburgh University conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. He was also F.R.C.P. and F.R.S. (Edinburgh), M.R.I. (Great Britain) and a Fellow of Bombay University.
During his remarkable reign, Gondal was free from rates, taxes, customs, octroi, and export duties, and female education was compulsory.
He had built a number of public institutions and schools. He was first to start a travelling dispensary and an asylum for the maintenance of the poor.