Word: bahadur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salutes echoed from the peaks of the Himalayas. The 108,000 inhabitants of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, knew that the big event was taking place in ornate Singha Durbar Hall. Before the glittering assembly of 35 white-uniformed Nepalese generals, His Highness, the Maharaja Padma Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite, President Truman's personal representative, were signing exchange notes which established U.S. diplomatic relations and opened trade. Their watches carefully synchronized, the 73-year-old Maharaja and his aides watched the seconds tick...
...Epstein. From Indian sources in London, TIME was informed last week that the British Government had drafted a new, far-reaching, administrative plan for India. The chief planner was Viscount Wavell, who brought with him to London Sir Francis Mudie, constitutional expert of the Indian Civil Service, and Rao Bahadur Menon, secretary of the Reforms Committee of the Indian Assembly...
...question of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state) will be indefinitely postponed. Cabled to London for Wavell's consideration was a broadly similar plan which also ruled out Pakistan. The plan was drafted by elderly, eminent lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and a group of Indian Liberals. Its main recommendations: 1) release of all political prisoners; 2) a new, Dominion-status constitution for India; 3) coalition governments in all provinces, with an all-Indian national coalition government...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...
...former Marguerite Lawler Branyen of Minneapolis is a "Mr. Holkar," who married her four years ago with a high-flown flourish: "Without mental peace I cannot properly discharge my duties as a ruler." Slim, sleek "Mr. Holkar" is His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful King Shepherd, Brave Warrior"), fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Indore, 34, ruler of some 1,325,000 souls, possessor of the first air-conditioned palace in India, honorary deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County and honorary captain...