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Despatches reported that at the coronation of the notorious "Mr. A." as Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (TIME, March 8) over 337,837 rupees ($125,000) was expended upon the hire and expenses of dancing girls, who were brought "from all over India" to entertain his guests...
Exacting Puritans who frowned upon the coronation of "Mr. A." as Maharaja over 80,000 acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...
Just how grave were the reasons which led to such a course on the part of the Government was recalled again, last week, when there died His, Highness Sir Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, survived by his nephew and heir, Sir Hari Singh...
Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...
...Justice Darling and a special jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times...