Word: ali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three who had their heads together in Amman were thoroughly used to working the British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...
Face-Shaving. While most of the princes were with Bhopal in hoping to weaken the central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow...
...bellied Huq had helped to inflame Moslems with their first dream of Pakistan. But in 1943, when he lost the premiership of Bengal Province he was converted to the predominantly Hindu All-India Congress, turned like a tiger on the League and its president Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
...Punjab riots ended a period of peace that has been jittery ever since the Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah spurned participation with the All-India Congress in the Constituent Assembly (TIME, Feb. 10). The bearded, sword-carrying Sikhs sided with the Hindus, eventually exceeded them in uncompromising denunciation of the Moslem cry for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state...
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...