Word: holkar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literal translation: His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful Sir Yeshwant, King Holkar, Brave Warrior...
...state in the Central India Agency, are shikar (hunting) and zenana (harem). In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes. Last week Indore's incumbent ruler. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur* indicated that his interest in zenana was over. He was married...
...Holkar, Maharani of Indore, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since she married the rich ex-Maharajah in Bombay four years ago. Traveling through Canada to escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her mother and her grandfather who is seriously ill. Manhattan ship reporters speedily pierced the Maharani's incognito (her name was not on the passenger list) and, to the indescribable horror of the munshi, proceeded to ask if it were not true that her husband was dissatisfied with her because...
...Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, last week the Ex-Maharaja of Indore, forced to abdicate by Britain for "immorality" (TIME, March 8, 1926), moved out of his $1,000,000 Chateau Holkar, offered it for sale. With his U. S. wife, former Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, the Ex-Maharaja will live at a Paris hotel, will continue to give champagne suppers to whites and browns...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...