Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...lower ranks there was "extravagance, waste and much feasting." Instead of wearing their uniforms, party members "strutted about in their own suits styled as capitalistically as they could make them." But the worst offender in Suichuan was probably Subcommittee Secretary Wang Ching-jung, who "took to opium smoking and morphine injections," and what's more, cynically boasted that the worst thing that could happen to a Communist party secretary was to be subjected to criticism...
Barley Grains. Nor was she angry with Jung Bahadur. Instead, she assembled all the nobles of Nepal and accused them of plotting to murder her paramour. Obligingly, Jung Bahadur helped her kill 55 nobles and 500 lesser folk. The Queen was so pleased that she made Jung Bahadur Prime Minister. He knew what to do next. Two months later he exiled the King and Queen, and put their minor son on the throne at Kathmandu...
Special Delivery. The present King, Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, came to the throne in.ign when he was five. Little is known of him except that he is said to be able to ride two horses at the same time, one foot on each. Also, he married two sisters on the same...
...seeks to establish a constitutional monarchy. Recently, leaders of this party moved in from India, stepped up their agitation against the Ranas. When a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister was thwarted, the King asked Prime Minister Rana for permission to leave the country. The present Sr1³, unlike Jung Bahadur Rana, refused to let the King go into exile. The King, with some of his jewels and both of his wives, sneaked into the Indian embassy, claimed the right of asylum...