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...Highness, Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, has effected such improvements in the administration of his Forestry Service by Occidental methods that the revenues from the forest of Kashmir have increased from $100,000 to $250,000 per annum...
...touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...
Lastly, Lord Reading has upheld that sharp yet intangible and often irrationally wielded sword: "British Justice." His crowning achievement in this respect was, of course, to force the abdication of the Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 8) because that potentate had mistreated a dancing girl who, according to Indian tradition, was indisputably his to do with as he pleased...
Despatches reported that at the coronation of the notorious "Mr. A." as Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (TIME, March 8) over 337,837 rupees ($125,000) was expended upon the hire and expenses of dancing girls, who were brought "from all over India" to entertain his guests...