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...most indefatigable tourist began his rugged tour as the first member of the British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of his chores. There was lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip will inspect everything from ancient cave sculptures...
Dollhouse Revolution. What happens in Tibet has always echoed in Sikkim. Tibetans began to migrate across the Himalayan peaks into Sikkim in the 14th century, and in 1642 Sikkim came formally under Tibetan influence. The British took over Sikkim in 1860, but even today, members of the ruling Maharajah's family traditionally marry Tibetans, and Buddhism is Sikkim's official religion, even though three-fourths of the Sikkimese people are Nepalese by descent and Hindu in worship...
When India got its independence from the British in 1947, so did Sikkim. For a while the Sikkimese tried to run their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched...
...ruling Maharajah, 65-year-old Sir Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...