Word: maharaja
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...group of Englishmen returning from a game of golf, and armed only with golf sticks, were unable to prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
Exacting Puritans who frowned upon the coronation of "Mr. A." as Maharaja over 80,000 acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...
...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
...Lahore, India, the coffin of the Maharaja, covered layer upon layer with pure gold, in which he reposed clad in a full state uniform encrusted with jewels, was followed to the cemetery by Sir Hari, barefooted, bareheaded, clad in sackcloth, wearing no jewels. It was publicly cremated while the nobles threw gold continuously into the flames. In penance for his indiscretions, Sir Hari submitted to the worst Indian indignity-the shaving off of his mustache...
Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...