Maharajas of India played an important role in the development of aviation in India, along with industrialists like Tatas. Amongst the maharajas, Scindias of Gwalior held a special place. Firstly because they started very early, and secondly because they did not keep aviation just as a royal hobby and preserve of the colonial rulers and other Indian aristocrats. Rather they made it a plausible faster alternative to traditional transportation mediums like railways that they had helped develop with much alacrity from 1872 onwards. The gradual democratisation of elite transportation is a historic legacy of the Scindias of Gwalior.
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