Word: bhopal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bhopal's followers was the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur who has saved more animals than Bikaner has shot. Dholpur keeps a big preserve where all animals are safe. He also consults holy men on his prospects of getting a male heir...
Chief leader of pro-Pakistan, anti-Congress princes was the handsome, polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal, who figures that if both the Moslem League and the ruling princes boycott the Constituent Assembly, it can be branded as a rump parliament of Congressites...
Face-Shaving. While most of the princes were with Bhopal in hoping to weaken the central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow...
...that the League could never join Hindus in a unified Assembly, asked Britain to dissolve the body. The Chamber of Indian Princes also slapped at the Congress Party, indicating that Moslem members might join with Jinnah in opposing Indian unification. The princes were sore at what the Nawab of Bhopal called a "campaign of misrepresentation and vilification of the princely order...
...princes-the polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal (19 guns) and the tiger-hunting Maharaja of Nawanagar (15 guns)-had more pressing business. The day before the audience they drove up resolutely to the Viceroy's house. To affable Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This...