Word: maharajahs
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...British raj, which once controlled India's northwest frontier province of Kashmir, exacted a token annual tribute of two Kashmiri shawls and three handkerchiefs from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution...
...princely states, was given the choice of joining either Pakistan or India. The fact that 77% of Kashmir's 4,200,000 people were Moslem pointed to control by Moslem Pakistan. But though he had signed preliminary trade and administrative agreements with Pakistan, Kashmir's Hindu maharajah began to hedge. Angered by his failure to accede to Pakistan, hordes of Pakistani "volunteers" swept into Kashmir to establish Pakistan's claim to the land. In terror, the Hindu ruler opted to join India, appealed for immediate military aid. India was happy to respond, airlifted troops into Kashmir...
...sentence between French and English). There are casually elegant buffet lunches and small dinner parties-seldom for more than 24-at which the guest list might include the Windsors, Henry Ford II and Salvador Dali, Italy's Donna Marella Agnelli and Truman Capote. Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Maharajah of Jaipur, Noel Coward and Senator Jacob Javits...
...Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Among the 150 guests were such notable continental play people as Linda Christian and the Maharajah of Jaipur. Sighed Aspinall last week: "Eddy is the most generous man I know. I'm most upset to see him in his preset position...
...master of masquerade who was once entertained by San Francisco society as an Indian maharajah, Amalu, in his latest escapade, had duped all hands by the simple device of promising them big rewards. "In a way," said one Hawaiian, "Sammy's the only innocent guy in the whole deal. All he wanted was publicity." All Too Fantastic. Most of Sammy's erstwhile business associates found it hard to be so forgiving. While Pro-Regent Carson (who turned out to be a 19-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been...