an unforgivable offense for a low-status palace servant to marry a royal princess. She was judged harshly by the conservative and rigid society of those days. A few years after the death of King Thibaw in 1916, the royal family was allowed to return to Burma. However, she was unwelcome because of her marriage to an Indian servant. Soon after returning to Burma, she gave birth to a stillborn son. The stillbirth made the other royal family members happy. A number of letters were written by Gopal begging the princess to return to him. Despite the royal family's opposition, she signed a royal edict stripping herself of all her titles, as well as royal decorations, and eventually returned to Ratnagiri with her daughter Tu Tu Sawant, but Gopal failed to keep his promise. He also wasted her royal pension, which she had received from the British government. Gopal used her money to buy a house for his wife and more than 200 acres of land in Ratnagiri. He abandoned the princess and his daughter in a small hut. The princess was too shy to go out and stayed in her room, waiting for Gopal to visit her (which he did for a few hours). She had no interaction with her royal relatives. A year before her death, when the Indian police force came to demolish the hut she lived in as part of a government plan to demolish it, she asked to remain, but in the end she stayed for three days next to the demolished hut. She had to sleep on the ground and only had two chairs for furniture in her hut during her time in Ratnagiri. Prior to her death on the night of June 3, 1947, at the age of 67, the princess lived a life of terrible poverty and isolation. Her body was carried from Ratnagiri's main road to the cemetery, attended by merchants and representatives of various organizations. The Ratnagiri police force presented a guard of honor, complete with a gun salute. The Indian government built a brick mausoleum for her at a cost of Rs 5,000 next to her father King Thibaw's mausoleum. Her urn was kept at the Ratnagiri Treasury until it was decided whether to send it back to Burma or bury it inside the tomb. However, the princess's urn was then misplaced. Her daughter Tu Tu married an Indian driver,