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Maharaja Serfoji II

Posted on July 23, 2022 by admin1  1080

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Recently, the exquisite 19th century stolen painting of Maharaja Serfoji II has been traced to a US museum.

About Painting

  • The painting has Raja Serfoji and his youthful son
  • It was probably painted between 1822 and 1827
  • Kept in the Saraswathi Mahal. 

Image Courtesy: sputniknews

Maharaja Serfoji II

  • Serfoji was the last of the Bhonsle Rajas of Thanjavur. 
  • He died in 1832. 
  • His only son Shivaji ruled until 1855. 
  • Thanjavur became a casualty of Lord Dalhousie’s infamous ‘Doctrine of Lapse’.

Saraswathi Mahal Library 

  • In 1918, it was opened to the public at Thanjavur.
  • The library even today boasts of over 40,000 rare manuscripts and paintings.

Doctrine of Lapse. 

  • The doctrine declared that if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”, that is, become part of Company territory. One kingdom after another was annexed simply by applying this doctrine: Satara (1848), Sambalpur (1850), Udaipur (1852), Nagpur (1853) and Jhansi (1854). Finally, in 1856, the Company also took over Awadh

Source: IE

 
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