Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some readers had beaten us to the draw. One fabulous but informed Maharaja had been receiving TIME by air to India, at an annual subscription rate of $585.60. But most subscribers outside continental North America - a staunch little group of 26,000 - waited for their magazines to arrive by ship...
...determine whether its population wished to join India or Pakistan. Nehru felt no qualms over Indian military occupation of parts of a state which has a 75% Moslem population. The presence of Indian troops was justified in the pandit's eyes because in 1947 the now-Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, since stripped of his power, had called in the Indian army to put down a revolt of his Moslem subjects. Nehru blamed Kashmir's current troubles on the unofficial invasion of Pakistan army units, which had gone in to help the Moslem rebels and which still hold...
...unveiling of the epitaph, Londoners could thank Sir Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahudar, the wealthy, 30-year-old Maharaja of Mysore. Though he could not be present, the music-loving maharaja had put up a $4,800 guarantee for the performance, so that The Four Last Songs could be recorded for his fabulous (now 20,000 records) personal collection and shipped off to him in Mysore...
Many princes have already changed their way of living. Last November the Maharaja of Jodhpur (1,750,000 rupees a year) moved with his Scottish wife from London's Claridge's to a small hotel which charges him only $2 a day. In the past, on Hindu festivals wealthy princes used to stage huge processions with elephants and camels. Now the maharajas' high-born pachyderms are out in the fields working for a living...
Recently, some of the princes joined Bombay society for one of their last flings. The occasion was the splendid wedding of 19-year-old Prince Karam Singh, heir to the Maharaja of Kashmir, and 16-year-old Princess Yashorajya Lakshmi, doe-eyed granddaughter of the hereditary Premier of Nepal (see cut). The wedding was carried out according to ancient Vedic rites, and lasted all day. In the evening the bride's father gave a huge reception on the brightly lit grounds of his mansion, served rare pates, caviar and native delicacies. Republican India will not see many more such...