Word: kanthirava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava...
...State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
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