Word: mahal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulzar Mahal Palace, the Amir sat on a silver throne, fanned by two garishly uniformed attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each...
...Having covered my share of wars, insurrections, uprisings, etc., I was prepared for a certain amount of trouble en route. But the Burma rebellion now in progress broke out after we had left, and the minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before...
...story of the death and funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi...
...river bank the procession came to a field as different as possible from the glittering Taj Mahal. This field looked like a junkyard. Here & there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...
Moslems claimed for Pakistan the famed Moslem-built Taj Mahal at Agra, deep in Hindu India, only 100 miles from New Delhi. Extremist Hindus retaliated by claiming the river Indus (deep in Pakistan), on the ground that the sacred Hindu Vedas had been written on its banks some 25 centuries...