Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of Plato, 21-year-old Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh, Prince Regent of embattled Kashmir, last week was trying to choose between duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling...
This week, friends of the young maharaja-not-to-be reported that he had made up his mind to accept the governorship, philosophically...
Gone Tomorrow . . . As the news of their work spread, they got help from unexpected sources. An Indian maharaja sent them scores of volumes about his own state. The Finnish Foreign Minister ordered an official geographer to help them, and Iran's late Premier Ali Razmara sent them a special survey he had made for the Iranian army. Some countries were not so cooperative, but the gazetteers managed nonetheless. By looking through a recent propaganda tract from Argentina, they found some of the 1947 population figures that Peron had suppressed. By combing through Soviet schoolbooks they learned a thing...
...Jodhpur State, India, barbers called time out for a rest after 300,000 residents queued up to have their heads shaved as a mark of mourning for the late Maharaja of Jodhpur, who was killed a fortnight ago in a plane crash...
Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan...