Maharaja of Bikaner

 While going through the following historical note : "Before independence the constituent assembly of India whose deliberation began in December 1946; when Sardar Vallabhai Patel wrote to the Dewans (administrators ) of the princely states urging them to ask their rulers to come to terms with the party which would now rule India. One of the first princes to come over to Patel's side was the Maharaja of Bikaner, his  Dewan was K. M . Pannikar a widely respected historian and administrator. After Bikaner success a dozen more states  accede to India many of them from Rajasthan ( several of the states were on the suzerainty of British Crown while others direct under British rule ). My father witnessed the ceremony  ( C.V.V. Raghavan ) a honours graduate from Christian College Madras got an interview call from the State of Bikaner in 1945 and was selected by Pannikar to join the State of Bikaner administrative services".