Word: bahadur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...
...causes of the intransigence, the most telling is perhaps the persistent perversion of Gandhi's teaching. Says Vice Chancellor Rai Bahadur Syamnandan Sa-haya at Bihar University: "Students did participate in our political agitations against Britain . . . This psychology which developed and grew for 25 years will take some time to eradicate...
Died. Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, 49, King of Nepal, whose proposed (but never accomplished) visit to the U.S. last November caused a stir because he planned to bring both of his queens; of a coronary occlusion, in Zurich...
...ailing King of Nepal, Makarajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur, 48, who with a name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...