Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many weeks, the Presidency of Bombay has echoed the demands of the people, particularly of the Parsis,* for British justice. The echo is a reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu state, following the murder of her baby, and sought the protection of a wealthy Parsi merchant of Bombay. This was a supreme affront to the Maharaja's "izzet" (caste honor). He held out every inducement to the girl to return, but she preferred her merchant and counted on the additional...
Subsequent evidence proved that the officials had acted upon the Maharaja's orders; and the people (presumably the Muhammadans and Parsis) of Bombay were loud in their demands for his punishment as well as that of the perpetrators of the crimes...
...order of His Majesty Maharajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shumshere Jung (Maharaja of Nepal) all slavery within the Kingdom is to cease at an early date soon to be fixed...
...speech lasting two hours (the speech took place on Dec. 3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by buying slaves from those owners who were inclined to sell and immediately liberating them. He reminded his people, however, that complete elim- ination of the traffic would have to be effected at an early date. The sum of about $425,000 had been allotted by the Government, he said, for the purpose of buying slaves.* The Maharaja quoted a painful instance of slavery: "A mother, a slave...
Some time in 1919, the Maharaja of Kashmir decided that his nephew, Raja Sir Hari Singh, should go to Europe for a visit. To pay his expenses, nearly $4,000,000 was given...