Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading the bandwagon faction last week was His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session...
...central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow near, is trying to gain the friendship of the Sikh community. Recently he celebrated...
...prince, the Maharaja of Travancore, has already announced his intention of declaring his independence. His Prime Minister, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, professed to be scandalized with Nehru's Constituent Assembly resolution declaring that the source of power in sovereign India was the "people." It was well known in Travancore, said Sir C.P., that all powers are derived from the Hindu deity Sri Padmanabha. (Handsome Sir C.P. owes his position in matriarchal Travancore partly to his great administrative ability, partly to the Maharaja's mother, the Dowager Maharani...
Farthest off the prince's union reservation was the 17-year-old Maharaja of Cochin. Last week he contributed money to the All-India States Peoples' Congress, a branch of the Congress Party devoted to fighting the princes...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Sajjan Singhji, 67, Maharaja of Ratlam, small (693 square miles) Indian state, internationally known poloist; in Bombay...