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- He was the first ruler to introduce free primary education in his state, in 1096, placing his territory far in advance of contemporary British India.
- The largest narrow gauge railway network in the world was set up by Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad with Dhaboi at its focal point.
- Kamatibaug was a gift to the city of Baroda from Sayajirao Gaekwad with more than a hundred banyan trees.
- On the occasion of Silver Jubilee to the throne, he gifted the city with a university popularly known as Maharaja Sayajirao University.
- Sayajirao Gaekwad played the key role in Vadodara’s textile industry.
- The Central library was actually born in Laxmi Villas Palace of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad Who were the pioneers of public library movement in India in 1906.
- The Central library of Vadodara is of three floors of huge glass tiles which were imported from Belgium and these can easily survive some sever natural calamities.
- Sayajirao Gaekwad envisioned a water supply scheme for Baroda in 1892 which would supply drinking water to the people of Baroda by gravity. A major portion of the city gets water from this source even today.
- Under his rule, Vadodara was one of the largest and wealthiest princely states existing alongside British India, with wealth coming from lucrative cotton business as well as rice, wheat and sugar.
- The Baroda Art Gallery had the collection of ‘the best Indian paintings in the world.’ Even before the turn of the century he had invited Raja Ravi Varma to come to Baroda and he painted fourteen scenes from Indian epics and seven full length portraits of the members of Sayajirao’s family. Artists from all over India began to come to Baroda to sell their art, by 1912,
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