Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...
...Maharaja of Baroda, 41, was short of cash. Up for sale went his plane: a silver-painted, twin-engined Dakota with a day cabin, night cabin, cocktail bar and cream-colored kitchen. The Maharaja's friends said that he had been watching his budget ever since his 8,164-square-mile state pensioned him at $532,000 a year eight months ago when it joined Bombay. There were also "For Sale" signs on all three of his houses in England...