Word: nagare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status trouble anyone very much, even though titled aristocracy, thanks to Bhumibol's prolific forebears, abounds. Among the 22 Royal Highnesses and 132 Serene Highnesses are some very active types, in the tradition of Thai women, who like to go into business and to gamble. Princess Chumbhot of Nagar Svarga is vice president of a bank, benefactor of a Bangkok hospital, curator of her own palace-museum, patron of Thai artists, and inventor of the sport of tubing-going over rapids in an inner tube...
...issue before the court was the fate of Dadrá and Nagar Aveli, two tiny (126 sq. mi.) Portuguese enclaves tucked away in the lush forests of Bombay State. In 1954, when the primitive Warlie tribesmen of the two enclaves chased out their Portuguese overlords, the Indian government proclaimed that Dadrá and Nagar Aveli were now "independent" areas, and refused to let Portugal send troops in from the nearby Portuguese coastal possession of Damão. The Portuguese promptly went to the World Court with the claim that under treaty obligations dating from 1779, Portugal had an automatic right...