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At the age of twenty, Takhtsinhji found himself the ruler of a territory nearly 3,000 square miles (7,800 km) in size. His first public act was to sanction a railway connecting his territory with one of the main trunk lines, which was the first enterprise of its kind on the part of a raja in
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