Word: maharaj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real power in the palace is 35-year-old Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Palden Thondup Namgyal, who was educated in India, and then spent several years in a Buddhist lamasery as a reincarnation of his uncle (who had been an abbot). The handsome young prince wheels over the country's 57 miles of navigable roads in a pink Mercedes and has imported a fleet of Mercedes trucks for the government...
Saris & Cha Cha Cha. Last week's game was arranged by an old friend and fellow poloist, J. K. Atal, minister of the Indian embassy. The maharaja and his handsome son and heir, Maharaj Kumar Bhwani Singh, 21, alternated in the No. 4 position on a team of mixed diplomats (Indians, Britons and a Pakistani), against the socialite Washington Polo Club team. The maharaja, a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.), beaming fellow, turned up in unexotic loafers, levis and leather chaps, managed to score one goal (he has a seven-goal rating) before the weather fagged...
...Seshaji Maharaj, a Brahman priest from northwest India, has worked out a new way to be happy in marriage. His formula: husband worship. Last week, only three days after India's Parliament granted Hindu women the right of divorce (TIME, May 16), Sri Seshaji had enough success with his idea to give Western marriage counselors a lot to think about...
...rose higher & higher, Swami Saraswati Maharaj, who is a holy man and a beggar, got hungrier & hungrier. At last, in the poor Indian village of Jagraon one day last week, he bent his tired footsteps to the door of a large...
...crops, the zamindar could seize his land (or his daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...