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...studies he picked German-born Frederic Spiegelberg, Stanford's top expert in Hindu culture and religion. From Japan he got Lama Tokwan Tada, a wizened little man in yellow robes who is the only living Japanese High Lama of Lhasa. From India came Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, the former Prime Minister of Travancore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Study Asia | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...prince, the Maharaja of Travancore, has already announced his intention of declaring his independence. His Prime Minister, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, professed to be scandalized with Nehru's Constituent Assembly resolution declaring that the source of power in sovereign India was the "people." It was well known in Travancore, said Sir C.P., that all powers are derived from the Hindu deity Sri Padmanabha. (Handsome Sir C.P. owes his position in matriarchal Travancore partly to his great administrative ability, partly to the Maharaja's mother, the Dowager Maharani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bejeweled Blacklegs | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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