Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maharanee cf Kapurthala: "I was reported last week to be living apart from the Maharaja because he will not give up his harem and slaves...
...religious ceremony made music before the door of a Mohammedan mosque in Indore, some 2,000 Mohammedans avenged this infraction of the Koran last week by rioting, killing five of the Hindu women, and stubbornly resisting for some time a cavalry troop sent to quell them by the Maharaja of Indore...
...this continued until last week. Then the Maharaja, Col. His Highness Sir Hari Singh* shrewdly announced that to honor 300 of his "favorite" courtiers he would present to each a sacred swan. By this means the Hindu clergy, who had absolutely refused to let the swans be done away with, were disarmed. The swan battalion and its 1,043 retainers were clipped from the budget. But in the princely houses to which the swans were sent there was wailing...
Finally Princess Ileana attended with her mother a banquet which began at noon and lasted until high tea time. The host who tendered this Lucullan feast was His Highness, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, famed pearl fancier...
...touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...