Word: maharajah
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...diplomat-politician, Galbraith occasionally forgets his own advice about other people's self-respect. In his early days as ambassador, he refused to meet a maharajah with the lofty comment that he did not want to identify himself with "feudal elements." Later he found that maharajahs can be the best of 20th century company. He publicly ridiculed two "end-use observers" on his own staff (experts who watch how U.S. aid is applied), later conceded that they were useful and that in fact he needed
...peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come and be our lady again...
Sorry for the Animals. Daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running...
...came out and the case went to court, where Sir Hari's own counsel, Lord John Simon (later Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer), described his client as "a poor, green, shivering, abject wretch." Sir Hari returned home to face the wrath of his uncle, the then Maharajah, who banished him to a remote jungle estate for six months and made him perform ritual acts of humiliation and penance...
Living It Up. When uncle died in 1925, Sir Hari took over as Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir. The coronation was splendid (Sir Hari wore diamond earrings and his pony a bejeweled caparison), and the British government, which encouraged maharajahs in those days to shore up its colonial rule, spent $1,000,000 to celebrate. But the ensuing rule proved less glittering. Although Sir Hari had a yearly income of $10 million, a silver-plated airplane, and a Versailles-sized palace up in Kashmir at Srinagar-now one of the Orient's most luxurious hotels-he spent much...