Word: maharani
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since it is a girl," he said resignedly, "the child must be named on the 13th day, according to Hindu custom." Later, however, he advanced the date one day, explaining, "I have discovered that the Maharani has a peculiar American aversion to the number...
Born. To Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, and his Maharani, the erstwhile Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, in St. Germain, France; a swarthy daughter...
...less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became by a second adoption the daughter of a Court functionary, Colonel Lam Bhate, whose duty it became to give her in marriage...
...hunting party were Edward of Wales and Albert of York, impotent before Fate. In Cooch Behar, unsympathetic Hindus croaked that their Maharani's accident was in reality a judgment upon her for adopting Occidental habits, even to the extent of eloping with her late hus- band...
With her British doctors the Maharani joked casually between spasms of pain in a manner which they fervently described as "sporting...