Word: khairpur
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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What sends shivers up an Indian potentate's languid spine is the nightmare that Britain may some day confiscate his realm. Last week to the Emir of Khairpur came a messenger with worst tidings...
...reason was crisp, British. According to the decree of confiscation, "H. H. Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur, Emir of Khairpur, has been guilty of consistent, disastrous mismanagement of the financial affairs of Khairpur and of indifference to his subjects' welfare evinced through his continued prolonged absences from his State...
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