Word: gaekwar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sale of mineral rights. They indulged in lavish whims-concubines, opulent palaces, bejeweled elephants, retinues of servants, strings of polo ponies, sumptuous celebrations. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who was the richest of all with wealth estimated at $2 billion, collected mountains of pearls. To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted by solid-gold cannons. Another rajah proudly tooled around in a gold-plated limousine...
...Khan IV will be just another student, or, as young Stevenson wrote, just " 'K' as we soon came to call Karim." Indeed, the Harvard Yard has seen many princes come and go, without fuss, sometimes even without remembering them. In 1912 Prince Jaisinh Rao, son of the Gaekwar of Baroda, got a Harvard bachelor's degree, and in 1928 Prince Somdet Chao Fa Mahidol won his M.D. from the Harvard medical school. It was while the prince was a student at Harvard that his son, Phumiphon Aduldet, the present King of Thailand, was born in Cambridge-perhaps...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
...government of India took a dim view of one of its major maharajas, the wealthy Gaekwar of Baroda. Charging, among other things, that he was promoting princely rebellion against the republic, and had not accounted for almost $5,000,000 of his princely state funds, the government ordered the Gaekwar stripped of all royal titles, plus his half-million-dollar annual pension (leaving him with an annual income estimated as high as $8,000,000). The former ruler of a princedom of 8,000 square miles and some 3,000,000 subjects has a month in which to appeal...
...born. But even as a boy, Bhimrao had other plans. Supporting himself as a hamal (one who cleans floors and bathrooms), he worked his way through the village school, won a scholarship for college in Bombay, where reports of his intelligence reached the ears of the benevolent Gaekwar of Baroda. The Gaekwar sent him to the U.S. for two years' study at Columbia University...