Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good measure, it was told that "Mr. A." flung a diamond necklace valued at 540,541 rupees ($200,000) to one of them, a nautch* dancer from Delhi...
...British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
...personal property. The children by his first wife (Mary, Cynthia, Alexandra) having benefited "by the wills of their grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Leiter," were left "laces, fans, dresses, furs and personal belongings of their mother with the exception of the peacock dress* which she wore at the Delhi Durbar...
...capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Delhi...
...there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will be visited on the way to Persia...