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...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...
...Highness, Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, has effected such improvements in the administration of his Forestry Service by Occidental methods that the revenues from the forest of Kashmir have increased from $100,000 to $250,000 per annum...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...