Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Death stalked and trapped, after an operation,* His Highness Lieutenant General Mukhtar-ul-Mulk Azimul-Iktidar Rafiush Shan Wala Shikoh Mohtasham-i-Dauran Umdat-ul-Umara Maharajadhiraja Alijah Hisam-us-Saltanat Maharaja Sir Madho Rao Scindhia Bahadur Srinath Mansur-i-Za-an Fidvi-i-Hazrat-i-Malika-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darja-i-Inglistan, G. C. S. I., G. C. V. O., G. B. E.?otherwise the Maharaja of Gwalior and titles...
...Maharaja of Gwalior, educated at Oxford, was the lifelong friend of Britain. He ascended the throne of Gwalior, Indian state, when but 10 years of age, reigned for 39½ years. He is succeeded by his son, George Jivaji Rao, aged...
...Maharaja was a great sports man, a fact which made him particularly popular in England. He not only hunted big game in his native jungles, but shot grouse and partridge in Scot- land, played polo and was an enthusiastic cricketer...
...reasoned, therefore, that an example would be made of the Maharaja and that he would be dethroned (as was his father, in 1903, by Lord Curzon) in favor of his 14-year-old son. The difficulties in the way of doing this are enormous. On the one hand, there is a large section of Hindu opinion to be reckoned with; and on the other, the Hindus and all India have again to be reminded that British justice takes into account nautch girls and low-caste merchants. Undoubtedly, the Maharaja must go. Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Lord Reading) was born in London...
...Maharaja's izzet...