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...Seattle, Wash., people who used to know and like famed Miss Nancy Anne Miller, now the Maharanee Sharmishthabai Holkar, wife of the ex-Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 12, 1928), were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down...
...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
...princes have no part or lot in such wild political theories," counseled the Maharaja of Alwar...