"We welcome here the great representatives of India, and first the Maharaja of Patiala, the ruler who has inherited a tradition of attachment to the British Crown and Empire, and worthily has he filled that great tradition. His gallant people have, not for the first time, fought side by side in this war with British troops in the battlefield. British soldiers welcome them as worthy comrades in arms." Mr. Llyod George, the Prime Minister of England, at the House of Lords on June 21, 1918[edit]
