Word: jaipur
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...Maharaja of Jaipur put on a good show. For the first post-independence session of the All-India Congress he sponsored a rousing parade down the main streets of Jaipur city. First came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks...
...Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This was a royal strike without precedent in Their Highnesses' relations with the Crown. Promptly the session was cancelled...
...Gang" comedies, turned up in the Army as husky, close-cropped Private Alan Clay Hoskins. >> John Roosevelt, youngest of the President's sons, went on active duty with the Naval Reserve, joined Brothers James, Franklin Jr. and Elliott, in uniform. >> The fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Jaipur, 29, joined the British forces in Egypt as a captain. At home he has a private army of his own, rides in a solid gold-and-silver coach. >> Mrs. Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach (The Spoilers, The Ne'er-do-Well), 63, registered...
Lest her high Indian caste be profaned by any male eyes glimpsing her while she went shopping in London, the Maharani of Jaipur, on hand for the Coronation, emerged from her hotel at 6 a.m., drove off in an automobile with frosted windows for a quick tour of London stores whose female clerks had been specially ordered to appear early...
...Irishman and a Scotsman, namely: handsome, epigrammatic Sir Courtenay Latimer, crusty Agent to the Governor General in the States of Western India, who will get potentates to sign in Baroda, the Deccan, the Gujarat Agencies and the Western India Agencies; astute and charming Francis Verner Wylie, the Resident at Jaipur, who must cope with the rulers of Jammu & Kashmir, Rajputana Agency and the Punjab States Agency; and scholarly, muscular Arthur Cunningham Lothian of the Political Department of the Government of India who must obtain the signature of "The Richest Man in the World" in Hyderabad, as well as those...