Word: baroda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little later he called for the check ($100) and tried to get off with a $5 tip. Under icy stares from the waiters, he fished out another $5. Next day, Major General Maharaja Sir Pratapsinha Gaekwar* of Baroda, one of the world's richest men, started his long voyage home to defend himself against charges that he had spent $10 million of state funds during a single six-week spree...
Fitness to Rule. In 1939, when he assumed the throne of Baroda, the Maharaja's personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply...
...Bombay in 1929, rumors that children were being kidnaped for sacrifice on a Baroda bridge led to riots that killed...
Gone like the rains of yesteryear were the comfortable questions which former annual conferences had discussed: How much should a prince take for personal expenses from his state's treasury? (The Gaekwar of Baroda spent $500,000 last year on English race horses.) How much of the budget should go for education? (The people of big, wealthy Hyderabad are 93.2% illiterate.) The 1947 questions were tougher: What will happen to the princes when their British friends leave India 14 months hence? And (more urgently), how and when should the princely states enter India's Constituent Assembly...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, gem-collecting Indian ruler of some 3,000,000 souls, arrived in Manhattan with wife & child for an American outing, promptly inquired about the availability of bodyguards (he was familiar with the Lindbergh case, he explained), made it safely to the Waldorf-Astoria under cover of four detectives...