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...Junior's remote ancestors used to potshoot Brahmans to relieve an inferiority complex because he himself was born in a lower caste. His grandfather was a horse-racing hellion. His father was forced to abdicate after a scandal with the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled down with his third wife, the sari-wearing Nancy Miller, Seattle sorority girl. Junior also married an American girl, the former Mrs. Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Raj Does Not Forget | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...present Maharaja's father, Tukoji Rao III, once fell in love with a nautch-girl named Mumtaz Begum. So ardent was Tukoji Rao III that Mumtaz Begum wearied of him and fled to Bombay, where one Bawla took her under his wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Indore Sports | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose far end stick the feet of wily Cleopatra. Nearby a Roman lady takes a hot tub bath. Another walks on her hands, sticking out her stomach at beauteous Mumtaz Mahal for whom the Taj Mahal was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Narcissism | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...Beyond Mumtaz, France's medieval Eleanor of Aquitaine presides at a Court of Love as King Louis VII rides angrily home from the Crusades. At her feet, in the East Indies, slaves give a Malay lady a pedicure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Narcissism | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fortunate Damsels | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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