Word: maharaja
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...Englishmen rescued Mumtaz Begum from the ruffians of the Maharaja. With what were these Englishmen armed...
From then on the Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), was admittedly in a most awkward position with respect to the Maharaja of Indore. The British forced the execution of three of the Indians who were implicated and the banishment of four more. But what of the alleged instigator of these assassins...
...majority of the native Indian Princes, "the subordinate allies of the King-Emperor George V," rallied to the Maharaja of Indore and apparently so alarmed the Earl of Birkenhead, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, that he is universally believed to have advised the Viceroy not to press for the trial of the Maharaja, who could be tried, in any case, only by a court of his Indian peers...
...first Earl of Reading, is however about to retire as Viceroy (TIME, Nov. 9). He had every reason to desire that this most dangerous of recent Indian scandals should be cleared up in a manner creditable to himself. There were those, moreover, who hinted that the Viceroy bears the Maharaja a grudge because he would not yield a point of precedence at official functions to the former Alice Edith Cohen, now Lady Reading. Last week all the ramifications of this affair suddenly quieted...
Under pressure brought to bear by Lord Reading, H. H. Mahrajat Dhirraja Tukoji Rao Holkar, Bahadur, G. C. I. E. (the Maharaja of Indore), quietly abdicated in favor his son, the heir apparent, Prince Yeshwant. The Indian Government at once accepted his resignation, dismissed the scheduled investigation into his conduct with respect to Mumtaz Begum...