Word: maharaja
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...Maharaja of Kapurthala's daughter inlaw, Princess Brinda, preparing to return home, looked back on the winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter. "New York men and women," said she, "are lovelorn, forlorn, and emotionally torn. The men don't understand their women, and the women don't understand their men." Solution? "I suggest that your husbands and wives sit together silently in meditation for at least one hour...
...India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan...
...Minister in Charge of States Affairs, last week saw a chance to get rid of some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja's prompting, said Congress supporters...
...India, they ran into the Maharaja of Jodhpur's personal pilot. "Come on up to the palace," he said. "His Highness will be glad to have you." They went, in one of "H.H.'s" 125 automobiles, stayed two days. "You ought to see that place," said George. "Talk about Hollywood...
...Maharaja made Abdullah his prime minister, promised to be a constitutional ruler in future; then the Maharaja lit out for the relative safety of his other princely state, Jammu. In New Delhi this week Prime Minister Nehru called for a U.N. plebiscite, shouted: "Is the Pakistan Government too weak to prevent armies from marching across its territory to invade another country...