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Last October the Nizam of Hyderabad showed his loyalty and opulence by donating an entire Spitfire squadron. Cost: ?100,000. When the Battle of Britain got hot, the Hyderabads were in the thick of it, scored 27 kills, but themselves grew thinner. Last week from the Nizam's loyal subjects arrived another check for ?100,000, to buy 20 Hurricanes. Owner John Wilson McConnell of the Montreal Star last week matched Hyderabad, gave...
Second most important native potentate in India (after the Nizam of Hyderabad) is the Maharaja of Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, India's largest native State, rates a 21-gun salute from British batteries and numbers among his many titles that of "Faithful Ally of the British Government." In World War I the Nizam demonstrated his faithfulness by giving four crores* of rupees ($15,000,000) to Great Britain's war fund, including a $400,000 grant for anti-submarine warfare. He also placed the services of the Hyderabad troops at the King-Emperor's disposal...
...this war's outbreak the "Faithful Ally of the British Government" came through again by contributing $400,000, this time to the British Air Ministry. Last week His Exalted Highness announced a further contribution-$45,000 monthly for the support of Hyderabad cavalry and infantry which may be called for service outside the State...
Scattered throughout India are 562 native states, which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls and not enough annual income to buy silk for a single turban. But by & large, the states' incomes are fabulous. An astounding proportion goes to the native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound...