Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Privileges are only a paltry make-believe, if not a fool's paradise," wrote Shri Hanwant Singh Bahadur, the titular Leader of Kings, King of Kings and Maharaja of Jodhpur. "Shorn of old feudal and autocratic character, a prince in free India should now rise to the level of Common...
Last week, the burly young (28) Maharaja, known to his friends as "Funny Face," was busy as a beaver rising to the level of common man in company with some 30 other bejeweled ex-potentates of India. All of them, stripped of princely power by their nation's republican constitution, are running for office in India's first general election, a month-long affair involving more than 176 million voters, 80% of whom are illiterate...
...Mother. Against such popular appeal, the snarling Communist and the colorless Congress Party candidates who opposed the Maharaja stood little chance. But the Maharaja had a few Tammany-style tricks up his sleeve as well. "In Bombay," he told his audience, "Congress is permitting the erection of a factory where hundreds of cows will be killed ... to solve the food problem. The cow is like our mother. Perhaps Congress will next suggest that we should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such...
Such strenuous campaigning allows the Maharaja only four hours sleep a night, but enthusiasm and a daily dose of 15 Dexedrine tablets more than make up the loss as he travels from town to town past loudspeakers blaring, "Give your vote to the Defender of the Faith-His Highness the Maharaja...
...Joke. "The princes are sadly mistaken," said India's Congress Party Premier Nehru last week, "if they think that they can turn back the clock of progress." Nevertheless, in Rajasthan the wise money was ten to one on the Maharaja...