Word: nawab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moslem Nawab Sir Muhammad Yusuf: "The declaration seemed highly satisfactory...
...Frederick Norbert Wagner this was no novel assignment. Maharajas are his dish. Man and boy he had circled the globe 17 times with them, never flubbed a ticklish problem (even when His Highness the Nawab of Rampur toted his own kitchen and cooks, or the late Gaekwar of Baroda handed him keys for 468 pieces of luggage, weighing 17 tons...
...eager were the British to carry back the Cup this year, after five unsuccessful attempts, that they scoured the Empire for the best ponies they could get (the Nawab of Bhopal and the Maharaja of Kashmir, two of the richest men in India, donated eleven), shipped them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
Safety First is the policy of the Richest Man, and in Hyderabad this continued to mean last week the flourishing reign of probably the ablest native government in India, with its key statesman Finance Minister the Nawab Sir Akbar Nazarally Hydari. During the cycle of Depression his famed "Three-Year Budgets'' have always balanced with a surplus and Hyderabad taxes have not been raised. Sir Akbar's system is to have an annual accounting of each Government Department provisionally, but to carry forward to a so-called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close...
...years after the Crown Princess of Hyderabad's marriage, she returned to Nice to give birth to her chubby son the Nawab Mukaramja (see cut, p. 22) in the holy presence of the Caliph her father. Now back in Hyderabad, she has devoted herself to Indian female uplift movements and this week the Crown Princess marshaled the Hyderabad Girl Guides in the Jubilee Durbar. Unlike their husbands, who follow their father's example in dress, the Caliph's girls dress as Indian ladies do (see cut above...