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In time, Sir Hari abdicated his rule over the state, was given an allowance of $100,000 a year from the grateful Indian government, moved to Bombay and devoted himself to the breeding of polo ponies. But he was best known for the apartment building he started in Bombay, in which a team of masons was permanently employed to alternately tear down and rebuild the walls of one room. A fortune teller had warned Sir Hari that he would die the moment the building was completed.