Word: maharajas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hari Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir, celebrated several years ago as "Mr. A." in one of Britain's best-known blackmail cases-a knight grand commandery of the Star of India...
...summon someone who can play one of India's many kinds of guitar or one of India's many drums. When Hindus want to see their native dances done in the most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with the late Anna Pavlowa. forsook Pavlowa to research the old dances and music of Hindustan...
...Were chagrined by reports that the Nizam of Hyderabad ("Richest Man in the World") and the Maharaja of Kapurthala had offered to supply His Majesty's government last week with as much gold as might be needed in return for suitable political concessions to these reigning heads of Indian States...
Child bride & child groom statistics for the nuptial year just closed were released recently by the Court of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. His Highness, a frequent visitor to the law-breaking Occident, thought it quite all right to publish child marriage statistics, despite the fact that by law of 1894 females under 8 may not marry in his state of Mysore...
...issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present British "National" (Conservative) Government has so obviously packed the Conference...