Word: bahadur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, 59, the Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan, once reputed to be the British Empire's biggest taxpayer; of heart disease; in Burdwan, India. Senior Hindu Prince of Bengal, he had an annual income estimated...
When meek, ascetic little Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur died last month (TIME, Aug. 12) he left no son to succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava...
Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
...Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...