Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conciliating Mahatma Gandhi, fomenter of Indian "resistance by non-cooperation," amply disproved the fears of anti-Semites. Last week Indians expressed pleasure at the elevation of Lord Reading to a place among Britain's two score Marquises. He is the first Jew ever to hold that rank. At Delhi, the capital of British India, the Marquis of Reading is succeeded as Viceroy by a Catholic, Lord Irwin (TIME...
...called from the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails expanding as a background and solidly inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls, so as to simulate exactly the plumage of a peacock. Originally it stood at Delhi, now the capital of British India, once the seat of the Mogul Emperors, for whom it was made. In 1739 the invading Nadir Shah of Persia carried off this trinket, valued at 30 million dollars...
...weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will be known as Lord Irwin, Viceroy and Governor General...
...Viceregal Court. In all but name, the splendors of Imperial Delhi eclipse those of London as the blazing Indian sun outshines the often sickly orb which rises and sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold...
...India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles Wood won the enduring gratitude of the Indian reigning houses by relieving them of the exploitation of early British misrule, his grandson is automatically persona grata at Delhi...