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this, saying, %u201cDr. Radhakrishnan was responsible for advising the Government of Madras to withdraw from its earlier position of having made my father a personal ward of the Court under the Court of Wards Act. This action went a long way to assuage the grief and mitigate the tragedy%u201d.One evening in the winter of 1937, in his grand palace in Madras, Maharaja Alak Narayan walked up the great ceremonial staircase to the highest floor. There, he stood, with the soft sound of the lapping creek below in his ears. What happened remains a mystery but the tragic truth is that he fell to his death, sinking into the swell of the waters.th So ended the reign of the 14 King of the Pusapati lineage.Pusapati Vijayarama Gajapathi Raju, all of 13, was the heir apparent to the throne.27