Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hari Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir, celebrated several years ago as "Mr. A." in one of Britain's best-known blackmail cases-a knight grand commandery of the Star of India...
When a Hindu bows to applause he puts the palms of his hands together under his nose, bends forward as deeply and reverently as if he were addressing deity. When Hindus want music they summon someone who can play one of India's many kinds of guitar or one of India's many drums. When Hindus want to see their native dances done in the most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with...
...third successive Indian Round Table Conference has dragged out its deliberations in almost complete obscurity. Last week its Hindus, Moslems, Parsees and British politicians seized the spotlight for a brief instant by marching into the King's Robing Room of the House of Lords for their final session. India Office immediately issued handfuls of optimistic propaganda hailing the Conference as "largely successful." Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, sent the delegates home with the following pat on the back...
...name of His Majesty's Government, Sir Samuel, a stalwart Tory, refused to fix a date for the establishment of an Indian Federation (first step toward "dominion status") in 1935 or any other definite year. He rejected even the concept of an Indian-born Minister of Defense for India. He refused to pledge that Indian troops shall never be sent beyond India's frontier except with the special consent of the Indian Legislature. He stuck firmly by all the British "safeguards" that have stranded previous round table conferences, but he did think of a more polite...
...Cincinnati last week went Sir Frederick Whyte, LL.D., Knight Commander of the Star of India, author, statesman, longtime president of the Indian Legislative Assembly, lately adviser on foreign affairs to the Nanking Government. Few days later Sir Frederick departed, with Cincinnati newsreaders none the wiser save for the fact that he had delivered a lecture entitled "The Future of England"; that he and Lady Whyte had been put up at the Walnut Hills home of Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future...