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Plush-plump, moon-placid Her Highness the Maharani of Dhrangadhra granted recently her first interview to the Occidental press. As chief of the Maharajah's six wives, she received a female U. S. newsgatherer in seclusion,* behind the curtains or purdah of the royal harem. The Maharani said: "The women of Dhrangadhra are opposed to polygamy. It makes us unhappy and our husbands cannot be happy either because they are mixed up in our quarrels. Neither do we like to have our men go to England to the universities. It makes them dissatisfied with us. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indian Interview | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Saheb of Dhrangadhra, was educated in England by private tutors under the guardianship of Sir Charles Ollivant, Director of the Bombay, Baroda, & C. I. Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indian Interview | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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