Word: maharaja
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...academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan Sir Akbar Hydari, several of whose adroit coups have jolted Islam as well as the British...
...India's table for the first time since the Empire was set up. Among ways of wrecking this Constitution would be for the ruling Indian potentates to refuse to sign the Act of Accession intended to bring their States into the new All-India Federation. Last year the Maharaja of Patiala, longtime chairman of the Chamber of Princes, re-signed rather than continue his role of being more or less Britain's whip over his fellow Princes. In the secrecy of their courts and councils last week India's ruling Princes tensely and suspiciously watched the Indian...
...have decided and hereby declare, ordain and command," proclaimed the Maharaja, "that henceforth there shall be no restriction placed on any Hindu by birth or religion from entering or worshipping at temples controlled by the Government of Travancore...
...would be impractical for the Emperor of India to intervene in this most delicate Hindu matter but last week His Highness Sir Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore celebrated his 24th birthday by issuing a proclamation hailed as the most important Hindu reform in almost a millennium...
Whatever they thought of his Untouchable decree, all subjects of the progressive Maharaja of Travancore like his "basket system." Tradition decrees that an Indian subject calling upon his ruler must present a gift and the Nizam of Hyderabad is notorious for extorting enormous sums by this means from his subjects. A subject of the Maharaja of Travancore is met by a servant with a basket containing gifts purchased by the Maharaja for "presentation" to himself. The subject chooses one of these gifts, enters, presents it, and the gift then goes back into the Maharaja's basket to be presented...