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Wearing the aura of perfect, slightly homosexual manhood often given by the English universities, along with their diplomas, to their handsomer graduates, Author Ackerley takes a trip to India to tutor a native Maharajah's son, aged two years. In Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
Though ostensibly a tutor himself, Author Ackerley's chief duties were to be tutored in Hindi himself, and to converse with the Maharajah from time to time. That strange potentate, with his Pekingese face and nasturtium-colored tongue, was a fantastic hodge-podge of East and West. Once while out motoring to catch sight of a mongoose which would bring good luck, Tutor Ackerley admired a particular stretch of scenery. Unfortunately that particular land was not a part of Chhokrapur, belonged to the Maharajah of Deori, with whom the Prince was not on speaking terms. "Well...
...Unrest in Kashmir is practically chronic by reason of the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh, over a population of 3,300,000 which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...
Holkar, Maharani of Indore, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since she married the rich ex-Maharajah in Bombay four years ago. Traveling through Canada to escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her mother and her grandfather who is seriously ill. Manhattan ship reporters speedily pierced the Maharani's incognito (her name was not on the passenger list) and, to the indescribable horror of the munshi, proceeded to ask if it were not true that her husband was dissatisfied with her because...
...long time Daisy got along well with her husband, bore him three sons. She got along well with almost everybody; everywhere men took to her kindly. On a visit to India she went roller-skating, fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances...