Word: maharajah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. The Maharajah of Jaipur, 58, one of India's princely ex-rulers, who until independence in 1947 ranked among the world's richest men; of a heart attack, while playing polo; in Cirencester, England. In return for his throne, the government granted him an income-tax-free stipend of $240,000 a year and, though that was scarcely enough to maintain five palaces and 200 elephants, the Maharajah continued to support the string of polo ponies of which he was so fond...
Forster had traveled in India and served for six months as private secretary to a maharajah. He was angry about colonialism. But in A Passage to India as elsewhere, he was circling toward the kind of contradictory, radical perceptions that can best be glimpsed obliquely and with reservations. He suspected that the barriers between the races -and between East and West-might prove to be impenetrable, though he characteristically went on insisting that the effort should be made...