Word: baroda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, things were not going at all well for the Maharaja of Baroda. His 250 servants went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition...
Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...
...money on rearing horses and running races . . . Your Highness [should] have looked after the proper administration of the state ... I need not say more. It is only the blind that ignores the signs and portents." The Maharaja went to the U.S. to buy some more horses. Last week, the Baroda legislature let go. "His frequent and prolonged absence from the state resulting in complete neglect of his duties," said a majority resolution, "and the conduct and actions of His Highness ever since his so-called second marriage have filled his people with misgivings about his fitness to rule...
Then he stepped aboard a plane for Baroda. "What happens to me is all up to my people," said the Maharaia. "Politics are never fair, are they?" He added that he hoped to be back in Britain in time for the fall racing season...