Excerpt from Gaorishankar Udayashankar, C. S. I., Ex-Minister of Bhavnagar, Now in Retirement as a Sanyasi Mr. Gaorishankar udayasnankar, C. S. L, the venerable ex-dewan of Bhavnagar, holds a high place in the roll of distinguished Native Ministers who, by their successful administration of Native States, have earned for themselves a character for statesmanship. He has been to Bhavnagar what the late Nawab Sir Salar Jung was to Hyderabad, what Sir T Madav Rao Was to Travancore, Indore, and Baroda, and Sir Din kar Rao to Gwalior, - one who evolved order out of chaos, and raised the territory he admin istered to the position of a first-class Native State. An account of Mr. Gaorishankar's life is, in fact, the history of Bhavnagar for the last' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.