Word: maharajah
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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...
Cloistered Valleys. To his task, Singh brought unique qualifications. His uncle had been court painter to the Maharajah of Kashmir. From his youth, Singh himself had been enchanted by the graceful ancient sculptures of India, photographed them assiduously even as he studied for a diplomatic career. Later, in his diplomatic role, he accompanied the late Jawaharlal Nehru on a visit to Ladakh and there saw paintings and sculptures that few outsiders had ever seen before; and he had comparable luck in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. The divergence from traditional Indian art fascinated...
...garland." In 1524, jealous Arab merchants, accusing the Jews of trying to take over the pepper trade, stirred up a holy war against the community by Indian natives. Cranganore was sacked, its homes and synagogue burned. Most of the survivors fled to Cochin and sought the protection of its maharajah. Although a Hindu, he treated them kindly, and in 1568 permitted them to rebuild their synagogue next door to his palace...
...Cocktail Party, the actors are naked, as it were, in their ordinary clothes. There they sit, in what is supposed to be a fashionable London living room, giggling over silly society stories with tag lines like "Up in a tree: you and the Maharajah," and "Lady Klootz and the wedding cake." This is not exactly American-style froth, and it sounds odd enough in American voices, with their somewhat ponderous, unmusical delivery. And when one of the voices belongs to Comedienne Nancy Walker-solid and scrappy as ever, with her hair dyed firehouse red-the incongruity is almost painful...
...Died. Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh, 60, member of India's fabulously rich aristocracy, whose income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds...