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Cricket at Harvard is truly an Experiment in International Living, for yesterday's eleven was composed of players from six countries: Australia, England, Jamaica, Hyderabad, Bermuda, and Canada. The Harvard Cricket Club has members from all the schools of the University as well as Eastment and Binns, who is currently enrolled in Wentworth Institute...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Cricketers Down Yale, 159-48; Gracious Gesture Prevents Greater Rout | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...over to his 22-year-old son Hans, who furnished it with Gobelin tapestries, the finest crystals, magnificent antiques. In the palmy days before and after World War I the Palace became a kind of winter home for the very rich and the very royal. The Maharaja of Hyderabad would arrive with 500 trunks and a personal cook, who sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Golden Rain | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Today, however, as the miserly old seventh Nizam of Hyderabad approaches his 71st birthday, the blessings of the beggar in the forest have run out, not only for the Nizam's family, but for those of all the once-great princes of India. They are shorn of their royal power, and by the end of this month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Crust of the Seventh Loaf | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...forest in Hyderabad nearly three centuries ago (so the story goes), a prince met a holy man begging bread. Stricken to the heart by his plight, the prince gave the beggar seven loaves of fine bread. In gratitude, the holy man put his blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Crust of the Seventh Loaf | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

This is not the first such report. In Hyderabad an investigating group complained of "a deep-rooted conspiracy to establish a Christian kingdom in India." In Indore a commission found missionary work "a smokescreen for the conversion of only poor and backward people," called for tougher regulation of missionaries' activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reconversion in India | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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