Word: baroda
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...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...
...Gaekwar of Baroda, 36, plump, pleasure-bent potentate who rules 3,000,000 Indians, stirred up a tempest in Bombay teapots when he got top air priority to fly to England with his aide-de-camp for "health reasons." Scores of long-service British officers, waiting wearily for passage, on the crowded homeward bound planes, knew that the Gaekwar was going to England to race his stable, that his "aide-de-camp" was his champion jockey...
Sitadevi embraced Mohammedanism, got a divorce. She and her suitor sped to Bombay at New Year's, married quietly after Sitadevi had resumed her Hindu faith. In Baroda, the Gaekwar's subjects talked of asking him to abdicate...