Word: jammu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
...loyalty of us princes to the British Crown is no mere figure of speech!" declared the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, notorious some years ago as "Mr. A." (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), the victim of an English woman who blackmailed...
Married. Col. H. H. Sir Hari Singh, K. C. I. E., K. C. V. O., Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, once notorious as "Mr. A.," the victim of a "badger game" staged by international crooks (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924); at Srinagar, India. Despatches, mutilated in transmission, did not state the name or rank of the bride...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...