Word: maharajas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exacting Puritans who frowned upon the coronation of "Mr. A." as Maharaja over 80,000 acres in the North Indian frontier wilds of Jammu and Kashmir (see above), relapsed into a state of pious admiration for British justice as they learned of the punishment which was meted out last week to the Maharaja of Indore, a state of some 8,000 acres* in extent, conveniently situated in Central India, within the immediate sphere of British influence...
...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
Meanwhile remembrance is busy with the late Maharaja, third of his line, grandson of Ghulab Singh, founder of the Kashmir dynasty. For two score years he ruled in Oriental splendor from his palace at Srinagar, effected important political and social reforms, and was so far friendly to the British that he sent an army of 10,000 men to fight with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed...
...Lahore, India, the coffin of the Maharaja, covered layer upon layer with pure gold, in which he reposed clad in a full state uniform encrusted with jewels, was followed to the cemetery by Sir Hari, barefooted, bareheaded, clad in sackcloth, wearing no jewels. It was publicly cremated while the nobles threw gold continuously into the flames. In penance for his indiscretions, Sir Hari submitted to the worst Indian indignity-the shaving off of his mustache...
Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...